Quotes About Versailles Treaty

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. The greatest failure of all is the failure to act when action is needed

John Wooden

#7. 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

#8. Raise up prophets and seers in Thy Church who shall magnify Thy glory and through Thine almighty Spirit restore to Thy people the knowledge of the holy. Amen.

A.W. Tozer

#9. 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

#10. Faith is rarely where your head is at. Nor is it where your heart is at. Faith is where your ass is at!

Daniel Berrigan

#11. We are in a position of financial and social power, and we could be agents of change in our society. Without pretension, I believe we could be a nice little gardener who takes care of the garden, and hopefully our neighbor will do the same. Then, maybe we'll achieve a better world.

Guy Laliberte

#12. a woman who could rescue herself was a woman who would never be in need.

Alice Hoffman

#13. 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

#14. I'm a compulsive sneaker collector, mostly limited edition.

Jourdan Dunn

#15. 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

#16. Every woman, even the most respectable, had roses blooming under glass; lips cut with a knife; curls of Indian ink; there was design, art, everywhere; a change of some sort had undoubtedly taken place.

Virginia Woolf

#17. I don't always have to sing a song. There is something besides 'The Man That Got Away' or 'Over the Rainbow' or 'The Trolley Song.' There's a woman. There are three children. There's me! There's a lot of life going here.

Judy Garland