Quotes About Treaty Of Versailles

#1. When Marshal Foch heard of the signing of the Peace Treaty of Versailles he observed with singular accuracy: This is not Peace. It is an Armistice for twenty years.

Winston S. Churchill

#2. As a consequence of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, the officer corps of the old army became part of this class, as did that part of the younger generation who, in the old Germany, would have become officers or civil servants.

Gustav Stresemann

#3. Jay: Looks like you misspelled the Treaty of Versailles.
Sara: Yeah, well. My brother's natural ability for languages didn't rub off on me.
Jay: ... I'm not talking about Versailles. I have no idea if you spelled that right. I'm talking about the word 'treaty.

Tracy Bilen

#4. For the first time since hearing about the Treaty of Versailles in detail, Mondaugen found himself crying. They'll drain his juices, he thought; caress his bones with their paw-pads, gag on his fine white hair.

Anonymous

#5. It is ourselves we encounter whenever we invent fictions.

Frank Kermode

#6. It was my dream, and probably the dream of every one of us, to bring about a revision of the Versailles Treaty by peaceful means, which was provided for in that very treaty.

Hans Frank

#7. After the Versailles treaty, the U.S. could have chosen to become a global economic loan shark, but we didn't, and let a lot of the tab slide. So not all lending and borrowing is bad.

Louis Navellier

#8. Yoga always made me feel really good about myself.

Scarlett Pomers

#9. The Second World War took place not so much because no one won the First, but because the Versailles Treaty did not acknowledge this truth.

Paul Johnson

#10. Raeder, the political admiral, stealthily built up the German Navy in defiance of the Versailles Treaty, and then put it to use in a series of aggressions which he had taken a leading part in planning.

Erich Raeder

#11. Why should this war in the West be fought for the restoration of Poland? The Poland of the Versailles Treaty will never rise again.

Adolf Hitler

#12. There is a troublesome humor some men have, that if they may not lead, they will not follow; but had rather a thing were never done, than not done their own way, tho' other ways very desirable.

William Penn

#13. Truth is beautiful and divine, no matter how humble its origin; it is the same in the musty boiler-room as it is in the glorious stars of heaven.

Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin

#14. Results are nothing; the energies which produce them and which again spring from them are everything.

Wilhelm Von Humboldt

#15. Loud ringing noises, I've discovered, upset Mr.Peepers.

Meg Cabot

#16. Fortunately the Italian people has not yet accustomed itself to eat many times a day, and possessing a modest level of living, it feels deficiency and suffering less.

Benito Mussolini

#17. I wish you didn't have to design so often. Try to do quality and cut down on quantity. I think fashion is very, very important.

Vivienne Westwood