Samuel Pufendorf Quotes

Germans understand only force.

Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat.

Let the natural process of war among nations smother the weak.

Republics are in the beginning and for a time industrious, but they finally destroy themselves because they are badly constituted. I dread the consolidation of the States and hope for a good national Government from the present Division of the States with a feeble Executive.

This claim of being a Muslim State is of course only a camouflage. It is a screen to dupe the common man, so that he may not see clearly that Pakistan is a feudal State in which a clique is trying by these methods to maintain itself in power.

Nationalism is the most powerful force on earth today.

The union of so many states will be seen in the eyes of the world—a wonder.

I can anticipate no greater calamity for the nation than the dissolution of the Union.

The Union is older than any of the States, and, in fact created them as States.

Extensive and organized power over large populations does not suffice to make a nation

Nations are not truly great solely because the individuals composing them are numerous, free, and active; but they are great when these numbers, this freedom, and this activity are employed in the service of an ideal higher than that of an ordinary man, taken by himself.

I am the army. You can negotiate with me. I represent the army. I represent the people.

The chief threats to security come from failed states.

The future of Saudi society will not be secure as long as it refuses to confront its own extremist elements.

The news shall blaze on every hill, And ring from every steeple, And all the land with gladness fill- We're one united people !

Latin America One Country Under One People

A great aggregation of men, sane of mind and warm of heart, creates a moral consciousness which is called a nation

It was, and is, an illusion, however, to think that the English would have treated us any better, and have allowed our economic growth to have proceeded unchecked if we had had no fleet.

The German is naturally a law-abiding man, and he had a glimpse into the abyss when Communism in Germany raised its head—and Communism was a creed of violence. It was beaten ultimately by another creed of violence and force [Nazism].

Our geographical position wills it that we have Germany for a neighbor.

The cause of France is identical with that of Righteousness.

I see a free and independent kingdom delivering up that which all the world hath been fighting for, since the days of Nimrod, to wit, a power to manage their own affairs by themselves without the assistance and counsel of any other.

Germany is the new Sparta. The same spirit of national discipline and self-sacrifice which earned for a few thousand inhabitants of a small Greek city-state an enduring place in history is being reproduced here by 67,000,000 of what are in some ways the most intelligent, industrious and high-spirited, and hardy people in the world. The last two years have witnessed here a political process as profound and far-reaching in its effects as the French Revolution. Germany has set a new pace of human endeavor. She has acquired a national momentum without precedent in political dynamics.

A geographical division... is a most fatal of all divisions, as no authority will submit to be governed by a majority acting merely on a geographical principle.

Outwardly, the Reich was weak, existing only on paper. Inwardly, the people was torn apart, bleeding from a thousand wounds. At home, strife dominated between parties, occupations, groups, classes, and religions. Our Führer Adolf Hitler saw that the Reich could survive and grow strong only if one achieved unity within the German people. That was the work of our party over the last fourteen years: to make once more one German people from a people of competing interests, from a people of differing religions, occupations, groups and classes.