"For the victor peace means the preservation of……" — Gustav Stresemann
"For the victor peace means the preservation of the position of power which he has secured. For the vanquished it means resigning himself to the position left to him."
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32 Quotes by Gustav Stresemann
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To walk behind others on a road you are traveling together, to give precedence to others without envy - this…
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I must begin by saying something about the old Germany. That Germany, too, suffered from superficial judgment, because appearances and…
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The courtesy which most becomes a victor was denied to Germany for a long time.
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No change in the balance of political parties can alter the general determination that no class should be excluded from…
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Here we encounter two conflicting concepts with which we must come to grips in our time: the idea of national…
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Mankind advances only through struggle.
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In every man the memory of the struggles and the heroes of the past is alive. But these memories are…
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A people that has experienced all that the Germans have been through, naturally offers fertile soil for the extremists.
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A Shakespeare could have arisen only on English soil. In the same way, your great dramatists and poets express the…
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As a confirmed individualist I certainly do not wish to underrate the influence of the individual, for the masses do…
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The economic position is only flourishing on the surface. Germany is in fact dancing on a volcano. If the short-term…
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As a result of the World War, this old Germany collapsed. It collapsed in its constitution, in its social order,…
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