Gustav Stresemann

The courtesy which most becomes a victor was denied to Germany for a long time. ”

Here we encounter two conflicting concepts with which we must come to grips in our time: the idea of national solidarity and the idea of international cooperation. ”

To contrast national solidarity and international cooperation as two opposites seems foolish to me. ”

Nothing in the reporting of a nation's history could so mislead the younger generation as to represent great events in such a way that they appear to have happened as a matter of course. ”

History uses a unit of measure for time that is different from that of the lifespan of the individual, whereas man is only too ready to measure the evolution of history by his own yardstick. ”