"Deutschland" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... been spending three hours over Lotze's big volume ("Geschichte der Aesthetikin Deutschland"). It begins attractively, but the attraction wanes, and by the end I was very tired of it. Why? Because the noise of a mill-wheel sends one to sleep, and these pages without paragraphs, these interminable chapters, and this incessant, dialectical clatter, affect me as though I ...
— Amiel's Journal • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... the days preceding the war the idea was expressed in the phrase, "Stand behind the President." The object of this teaching is to instill in the minds of the people, and particularly of the young, the principles of "Deutschland ueber alles," which, in translation, means "America first." There are more than twenty million children in the public schools of the United States who are receiving daily lessons in this first principle of ...
— The American Empire • Scott Nearing
... the larger warships are the battleships Oldenburg, Baden, Wurttemberg, Bayern, Sachsen; the large cruisers Kaiser, Deutschland, Konig Wilhelm; the small cruisers Gazelle, Prinzess Wilhelm, Irene, Komet, and Meteor, with the torpedo division boats D 5 and D 6 with their divisions. In addition, there are about 100 large and small steamers of the North-German Lloyd, the Hamburg-America ...
— The Coming Conquest of England • August Niemann
... conventional long form: Federal Republic of Germany conventional short form: Germany local short form: Deutschland former: German Empire, German Republic, German Reich local long form: ...
— The 2003 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency
... Potsdam put singing lessons in the curriculum of his soldiers' training, a tremor of military giggling was heard around the world. But in August, 1914, when Mars smiled at the sight of those same soldiers, marching across the frontiers east, south and west, under their throaty barrage of "Deutschland, Deutschland, Ueber Alles," the derisive giggles completely died out. It immediately became a case of he who laughs first, ...
— "And they thought we wouldn't fight" • Floyd Gibbons
... militarism like Socialism has always encouraged the proletariat to increase and multiply. Imperial Germany was the outstanding and awful example of this attitude. Before the war the fall in the birth-rate was viewed by the Junker party with the gravest misgivings. Bernhardi and the protagonists of DEUTSCHLAND-UBER-ALLES condemned it in the strongest terms. The Marxians unconsciously repeat the words of the government representative, Krohne, who, in a debate on the subject in the Prussian Diet, February ...
— The Pivot of Civilization • Margaret Sanger
... Germany in the year 1879, when the colonial propaganda was being pushed forward, and noted the eagerness in some quarters, and the distrust in others, with which pamphlets like that of Herr Fabri, Bedarf Deutschland Colonien? were received. Bismarck himself at first checked the "colonials," until he felt sure of the European situation. That, however, was cleared up to some extent by the inclusion of Italy in the compact which thus became the Triple Alliance (May 1882), and by the advent ...
— The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.) • John Holland Rose
... my statements is a work by Julius Aronius, Regesten zur Geschichte der Juden in Deutschland, Berlin, 1893. It presents many new facts on the medieval Jewries ...
— The Book of Delight and Other Papers • Israel Abrahams
... customary beliefs so far as to perform actions which must be disastrous unless the beliefs in question are wholly true. The world would be utterly bad, in the opinion of the average Englishman, unless he could say "Britannia rules the waves"; in the opinion of the average German, unless he could say "Deutschland ueber alles." For the sake of these beliefs, they are willing to destroy European civilization. If the beliefs should happen to be ...
— Political Ideals • Bertrand Russell
... again; we were to learn to sing. The greater part did not join in, and the song went feebly. Then we had to march round in a circle and sing, and that went no better. After that we had an hour off, and on the way back to billets we were to sing 'Deutschland uber Alles,' but this broke down completely. One never hears songs of the Fatherland ...
— Now It Can Be Told • Philip Gibbs
... Republic of Germany conventional short form: Germany local long form: Bundesrepublik Deutschland local short form: Deutschland Digraph: GM Type: federal republic Capital: Berlin note: the shift from Bonn to Berlin will take place over a period of years with Bonn retaining many administrative functions and several ministries Administrative ...
— The 1993 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... strangers; nay, in so wide a Universe, there was even, unconsciously, by Commerce, some mutual helpfulness between them. How then? Simpleton! their Governors had fallen-out; and, instead of shooting one another, had the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot.—Alas, so is it in Deutschland, and hitherto in all other lands; still as of old, "what devilry soever Kings do, the Greeks must pay the piper!"—In that fiction of the English Smollet, it is true, the final Cessation of War is perhaps prophetically shadowed ...
— Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History • Thomas Carlyle
... Imperial electoral system see Howard, The German Empire, Chap. 5; Lebon, Etudes sur l'Allemagne politique, 70-83; ibid., Etude sur la legislation electorale de l'empire d'Allemagne, in Bulletin de Legislation Comparee, 1879; G. Below, Das parlamentarische Wahlrecht in Deutschland (Berlin, 1909); and M. H. Nezard, L'Evolution du suffrage universel en Prusse et dans l'Empire allemand, in Revue du Droit Public, ...
— The Governments of Europe • Frederic Austin Ogg |
Words linked to "Deutschland" : Bavaria, Ruhr, Rheinland, EC, European country, Kaplan Group, pietism, Blenheim, Siegfried line, Chemnitz, Hameln, RAF, Karl-Marx-Stadt, Wuerzburg, trillion, Hamburg, NATO, Rostock, Schwarzwald, Saale River, Divine Unity, Nuremberg, Braunschweig, Brownshirt, Association of Islamic Groups and Communities, Caliphate State, European nation, cologne, Baader Meinhof Gang, Frisian Islands, Neckar, Hannover, Ruhr Valley, Nurnberg, Rhine, Danube River, Common Market, battle of Minden, Hamelin, Minden, European Union, Pfalz, Danube, Halle-an-der-Saale, Preussen, Bremerhaven, Lower Saxony, Europe, Red Army Faction, Teuton, Bonn, Buchenwald, Weissbier, battle of Rossbach, Aachen, Black Forest, Dachau, swastika, Oktoberfest, Essen, Stuttgart, Saale, Koln, Weimar, Constance, Neckar River, Jena, German language, Wurzburg, German capital, German, one million million million, Dusseldorf, European Community, Frankfort, Danau, Weser, Solingen, Rossbach, Oder River, High German, Sorbian, EEC, white beer, Aken, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, battle of Teutoburger Wald, palatinate, Prussia, Lutzen, Frankfurt on the Main, Teutoburger Wald, Lubeck, margrave, Rhein, Battle of Jena, wheat beer, panzer, liebfraumilch, Bodensee, Baader-Meinhof Gang, Leipzig, Oder, Bremen, Thuringia, Dresden, Schadenfreude, battle of Lutzen, berlin, Ruhr River, Mannheim, Lake Constance, Halle, Dortmund, quadrillion, Hakenkreuz, Hanover, Rhine River, European Economic Community, Rhineland, Weser River, Al Tawhid, Potsdam, al-Tawhid, Brunswick, eu, Frankfurt, Norse mythology, Aix-la-Chapelle |
