German Quotes

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Like so many of our people, we have now had a personal experience of German barbarity which only strengthens the resolution of all of us… — George VI
Every country must have its own devil. Welshland its own, and France its own. Our German devil will be a good wind-pipe, and must be… — Martin Luther
The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest. — Clifton Fadiman
You can always reason with a German. You can always reason with a barnyard animal, too, for all the good it does. — P.J. O'Rourke
Our German forefathers had a very kind religion. They believed that, after death, they would meet again all the good dogs that had been their… — Otto von Bismarck
Accordingly, France Had Voltaire, and his school of negative thinkers, and England (or rather Scotland) had the profoundest negative thinker on record, David Hume: a… — John Stuart Mill
If I can send the flower of the German nation into the hell of war without the smallest pity for the shedding of precious German… — Adolf Hitler
I'd rather have a German Division in front of me than a French one behind. — George S. Patton
There are two kinds of music; German music and bad music. — H. L. Mencken
There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry. — Mark Twain
Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not… — George Bernard Shaw
The "progressives" who today masquerade as "liberals" may rant against "fascism"; yet it is their policy that paves the way for Hitlerism. Nothing could have… — Ludwig von Mises
Our national policies will not be revoked or modified, even for scientists. If the dismissal of Jewish scientists means the annihilation of contemporary German science,… — Adolf Hitler
By an application of the theory of relativity to the taste of readers, today in Germany I am called a German man of science, and… — Albert Einstein
The German Fuhrer, as I have consistently maintained, is an evolutionist; he has consistently sought to make the practices of Germany conform to the theory… — Arthur Keith
Every Jew, somewhere in his being, should set apart a zone of hate -healthy virile hate- for what the German personifies and for what persists… — Elie Wiesel
You must understand that this war is not against Hitler or National Socialism, but against the strength of the German people, which is to be… — Winston Churchill
German in the most extravagantly ugly language - it sounds like someone using a sick bag on a 747. — Unknown Author
The strongest army in the world [the French] facing no more than twenty-six [German] divisions, sitting still and sheltering behind steel and concrete while a… — J F C Fuller
Chemistry is a gibberish of Latin and German; but in Leibig's hands it becomes a powerful language. — Jacob Grimm

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