Big government Quote by Colin Woodard

There in the midst of German life is an alien and isolated race of men. Loud and self-conscious in their dress, hot-blooded and restless…

— Walther Rathenau

“Those were comfortable, carefree years. The word I’d use now is idyllic. On Friday nights, we cheered on the Bulldogs of Midland High. On…

— George W. Bush

The normal citizen looked at us and saw a mixture of gangster, hippy, criminal and ape. Once somebody rang us up with a nice…

— Chris Karrer

We Germans have learned from history. We are a peace-loving, freedom-loving people. There is only one place for us in the world: at the…

— Helmut Kohl

“Germany was my country where I grew up rooted.”

— Claudia Poser

“More riveting to me in the end than the politics of Berlin was the vast social experiment its division had become... it was possible…

— Krista Tippett

“as the "people of the centre" in every sense of the term, the Germans are more intangible, more ample, more contradictory, more unknown, more…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Listlessly we trudge onward. We had pictured our entry into our own country after the long years out there rather differently from this. We…

— Erich Maria Remarque

Greater Germany - the dream of our fathers and grandfathers - is finally created.

— Anonymous

“In Göttingen, after the Americans took the town but before they established full control, mobs composed of women, the elderly and teenagers too young…

— Frederick Taylor

“We have no quarrel with the German nation, One would not quarrel with a flock of sheep. But, generation after generation, They throw up…

— Anonymous

Those who had talked to us about national pride and Christian brotherly love were the first to come to terms or actively collaborate with…

— Mikis Theodorakis