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„Man kämpft nicht nur mit dem Schwert, sondern auch mit dem Herzen.“

„Europa ist nicht ein Gebilde, das für sich leben könnte. Europa ist nur möglich innerhalb der Welt und innerhalb der Weltwirtschaft.“

Gustav Stresemann

„Man höhnt und spottet über das Frankfurter Parlament in der Paulskirche, man höhnt und spottet über die damalige Revolution. Auch für uns gilt das Wort: Wohl dem, der seiner Ahnen gern gedenkt! Es waren die Ahnen des deutschen Liberalismus, die damals in der Frankfurter Paulskirche wirkten, und jedes Parlament könnte stolz sein, wenn es auf der geistigen Höhe stände, auf der einst das Frankfurter Parlament gestanden hat.“

Gustav Stresemann

Reichstagsrede vom 26. Oktober 1916, in: Stenogr. Berichte des Reichstags Bd. 308 S. 1819-1823, S. 1821 (A) reichstagsprotokolle.de http://www.reichstagsprotokolle.de/Blatt_k13_bsb00003404_00252.html

„Die Geschichte ist kein Fundament für verlorene Gelegenheiten.“

Gustav Stresemann

„Ein Staatsmann ist ein Politiker, der sein Ziel im Auge behält, ohne zu schießen.“

Gustav Stresemann

„Liberal ist, wer die Zeichen der Zeit erkennt und danach handelt.“

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„Es gibt ein unfehlbares Rezept, eine Sache gerecht unter zwei Menschen aufzuteilen: Einer von ihnen darf die Portionen bestimmen, und der andere hat die Wahl.“

Gustav Stresemann

„Die meisten Deutschen haben nur ein Gebet: Herr, unsere tägliche Illusion gib uns heute.“

Gustav Stresemann

„Für den Sieger bedeutet der Frieden die Aufrechterhaltung seiner Machtstellung, die der Sieg ihm verliehen hat.“

Gustav Stresemann

„Wenn irgendetwas uns verflucht hat, dann ist es doch die Großstadt gewesen, nirgends mehr geht die Einzelpersönlichkeit zugrunde als in diesen Stätten der Massensuggestion.“

Gustav Stresemann

„Im Schützengraben der Verantwortlichkeit hat man mehr Verluste als in der Etappe der Opposition.“

Gustav Stresemann

„Nur der Geist, der unverrückbar an ein fernes schönes Ziel glaubt, vermag die Lebenskraft sich zu erhalten, die ihn über den Alltag… hinwegführt.“

Gustav Stresemann

„Aus Niederlagen lernt man leicht. Schwieriger ist es, aus Siegen zu lernen.“

Gustav Stresemann

„Lob von der falschen Seite wäre fatal, wenn es nicht aufgewogen würde durch Tadel von der richtigen.“

Gustav Stresemann

„Alle Fragen des besetzten Gebiets werden abhängig sein von einer Verständigung über die größere Frage, die Frage der Reparationslösung überhaupt. Wenn ich an die Verhandlungen denke, die von den Sachverständigenkomitees geführt worden sind und die in Berlin fortgesetzt wurden, wenn man mich da fragt, ob aus diesen Verhandlungen etwas zu erwarten sei, möchte ich mich dem anschließen, was ein deutscher Wirtschaftler, der seit Jahren diese Sisyphusarbeit mitgemacht hat und der die Ergebnislosigkeit dieser Bemühungen sah, geäußert hat: er sehe zum erstenmal einen Silberstreifen an dem sonst düsteren Horizont.“

Gustav Stresemann

Rede in einer Wahlkampfveranstaltung der DVP vom 17. Februar 1924, in: Gustav Stresemann. Reden der Kanzler- und Außenministerzeit (1923-1929). <br class="br">Quelle: Herausgegeben und bearbeitet von Wolfgang Elz. - Nach Gustav Stresemann: Vermächtnis. Der Nachlaß in drei Bänden, Bd. 1: Vom Ruhrkrieg bis London. 1932. https://neuestegeschichte.uni-mainz.de/internationale-politik/stresemann-reden/reden-1923-1929/

Gustav Stresemann: Zitate auf Englisch

“There is much sentimentality in the fourteen Points of Wilson's peace program. As far as we are concerned the question of Alsace-Lorraine is one that we cannot discuss and it cannot even be raised at any international conference. The territorial integrity of Turkey must be maintained. The Reich Chancellor has declared that we do not seek the annexation of Belgium. However, the Flemish movement is working for independence. The Reich Government should make it its task to support this movement. With regard to the question of self-determination…it must be remembered that there is no political education in Lithuania and that from seventy to eighty per cent. of the population there is illiterate…[Poland does] not need freedom.”

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Speech in the Reichstag (24 January 1918), quoted in W. M. Knight-Patterson, Germany. From Defeat to Conquest 1913-1933 (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1945), p. 138.
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“The most important thing…is the liberation of German territory from foreign occupation. We must first get the strangler from our neck. Therefore German policy, as Metternich said of Austria—it must be after 1809—must in this respect consist first in showing finesse [finassieren] and avoiding fundamental decisions.”

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Letter to the Crown Prince (7 September 1925), quoted in Jonathan Wright, Gustav Stresemann: Weimar's Greatest Statesman (Oxford University Press, 2004), p. 327
1920s

“The conquest of Riga is of the greatest importance not only from the military, but also form the political point of view… Our military situation was never more glorious than it is at present. Meanwhile, there is also the U-boat war, which is taking its course. The destruction of enemy tonnage that was expected of it on the basis of official predictions, has not only been achieved, but partly exceeded by more than half…Time is working for us. Britain to-day is fighting the war with a watch in her hand, and it is in this that I see the fundamentally decisive effect of the U-boat weapon for us and the approach of peace…If we are to achieve anything through compromise and understanding, then the Government must not be forced to make any statements renouncing something from the outset. For this reason the tactics by which it has been and is still being tried to make the Government declare its disinterestedness in Belgium, are wrong. Even those who share the attitude of Herr Scheidemann ought to fight for the last stone in Belgium, in order to exploit to the utmost that which possession has made into a dead pledge…However, the fact that we are going to have peace—and, we hope, soon—will in my conviction be due, apart from our military achievements, to the effects of unrestricted U-boat warfare, of which I have repeatedly said before the Main Committee that while I reject the formula that it will force Britain to her knees, I believe as firmly in the formula that it will force Britain to the conference table.”

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Speech in the Reichstag (October 1917), quoted in W. M. Knight-Patterson, Germany. From Defeat to Conquest 1913-1933 (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1945), p. 121
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“It is the policy of force which finally will always triumph. But when one has not got the force, one can also combat by the idea.”

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Speech in Berlin (29 November 1924), quoted in W. W. Coole (ed.), Thus Spake Germany (London: George Routledge & Sons, 1941), p. 330
1920s

“The Government must not insist too much on the fact that Germany will integrally fulfil the conditions of the peace treaty. For all parties have been unanimous in considering that the treaty is unfulfillable.”

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Speech to the National Assembly (8 October 1919), quoted in W. W. Coole (ed.), Thus Spake Germany (London: George Routledge & Sons, 1941), p. 331
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“This Alsace and vast tracts of Lorraine are German regions, and their inhabitants are of German blood. The tricolour may float above Strasbourg cathedral, but that imposing edifice was born of the German spirit, it has nothing in common with the French spirit; it was there that one of the greatest geniuses Germany has given the world first felt the great breath of German architecture. It all bears the impress of the German character and is animated by the German spirit. That is why we shall never forget that Alsace-Lorraine is German, that it will always belong to us in spirit and that our task will be to preserve for Germany this spiritual patrimony.”

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Speech to the Congress of the People's Party in Jena (17 April 1919), quoted in W. W. Coole (ed.), Thus Spake Germany (London: George Routledge & Sons, 1941), p. 331
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“The restoration of German vitality is not guaranteed by the status quo ante.”

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It will also be necessary to make territorial changes; don't let us hamper our statesmen with assertions to the effect that the German people do not want this.
Speech in the Reichstag (1 March 1917), quoted in W. W. Coole (ed.), Thus Spake Germany (London: George Routledge & Sons, 1941), p. 135
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“Napoleon once compared England with Carthage. Carthage sank down from her height. England also can sink and will sink. For on our side is the true right and on our side the might to strike the blow at her heart, if we understand how to exploit the hour.”

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'Napoleon und Wir' (29 January 1917), quoted in W. W. Coole (ed.), Thus Spake Germany (London: George Routledge & Sons, 1941), p. 175
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“We must become so strong and must so ruthlessly weaken our opponents that no enemy will ever dare to attack us again. To achieve this a modification of frontiers in the west as in the east is essential.”

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Speech at a joint meeting of the National Liberal Party and the National Liberal Central Committee (15 July 1915), quoted in W. W. Coole (ed.), Thus Spake Germany (London: George Routledge & Sons, 1941), p. 274
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“The question of Belgium must not be detached from the complex of the Western questions as a whole. Belgium is a most valuable pledge in our hands.”

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Speech in the Reichstag (27 February 1918), quoted in W. W. Coole (ed.), Thus Spake Germany (London: George Routledge & Sons, 1941), p. 210
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