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All Quotes Collection

"Provision was also made for the distribution of Germany's foreign assets among the Allies."
47

"What we want is a lasting peace. We will oppose soft measures which invite the breaking of the peace."
40

"The American people want peace. They have long since ceased to talk of a hard or a soft peace for Germany."
50

"The carrying out of the Potsdam Agreement has, however, been obstructed by the failure of the Allied Control Council to take the necessary steps to enable the German economy to function as an economic unit."
35

"The German people were not denied, however, the possibility of improving their lot by hard work over the years. Industrial growth and progress were not denied them."
34

"The working out of a balanced economy throughout Germany to provide the necessary means to pay for approved imports has not been accomplished, although that too is expressly required by the Potsdam Agreement."
54

"Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death."
40

"We favor the economic unification of Germany. If complete unification cannot be secured, we shall do everything in our power to secure the maximum possible unification."
39

"We have helped to organize the United Nations. We believe it will stop aggressor nations from starting wars. Because we believe it, we intend to support the United Nations organization with all the power and resources we possess."
33

"We have learned that peace and well-being are indivisible and that our peace and well-being cannot be purchased at the price of peace or the well-being of any other country."
43

"We intend to continue our interest in the affairs of Europe and of the world."
43

"Power intoxicates men. It is never voluntarily surrendered. It must be taken from them."
33

"I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions."
53

"Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment."
63

"Lovers may be and indeed generally are enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations."
46

"It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts, you have no idea of the pain it gives one."
43

"There is in superstition a senseless fear of God."
42

"I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?"
41

"Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?"
43

"God will never tempt you. It's not in His nature. In fact, He promises to provide an escape route for every tempting situation. But I can promise you this: God will test your faith. And those tests won't get easier. They will get progressively harder as the stakes get higher. And those tests will undoubtedly revolve around what is most important to you...God will test you to make sure your identity and your security are found in the cross of Jesus Christ. And God will go after anything you trust in more than Him until you put it on the altar."
15

"Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don't know any other stipend annexed to it."
36

"I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff- box from an emperor."
51

"The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat."
34

"When life gives you lemons, chunk it right back."
38

"A shard of glass cut my belly as I slid into the battered SUV, but I managed to keep the family jewels intact. I'd be counting every small victory tonight."
38

"I love you enough to never make you choose."
41

"Sammi watched him walk toward her.He walked like a predator, a conqueror. A king who ruled and commanded all. He was sex and sin, decadence and sensuality.He was, simply put, spectacular."
49

"Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion."
42

"Shakespeare's name, you may depend on it, stands absurdly too high and will go down."
53

"Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it."
Self,
39

"Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil."
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