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Mankind advances only through struggle. - Gustav Stresemann
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Dante can be understood only within the context of Italian thought, and Faust would be unthinkable if divorced from its German background; but both are part of our common cultural heritage. - Gustav Stresemann
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Here we encounter two conflicting concepts with which we must come to grips in our time: the idea of national solidarity and the idea of international cooperation. - Gustav Stresemann
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The concept of active cooperation has taken the place of opposition to the new form of government and of dreamy resignation entranced with the beauty of times past. - Gustav Stresemann
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If one seeks to analyze experiences and reactions to the first postwar years, I hope one may say without being accused of bias that it is easier for the victor than for the vanquished to advocate peace. - Gustav Stresemann
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During the past few years I have led a sometimes hard battle for German foreign policy. - Gustav Stresemann
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Just as the child is father to the man, so the impressions of one's youth remain the most vivid in manhood. - Gustav Stresemann
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A people that has experienced all that the Germans have been through, naturally offers fertile soil for the extremists. - Gustav Stresemann
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But just as haste and restlessness are typical of our present-day life, so change also takes place more rapidly than before. This applies to change in the relationships between nations as it does to change within an individual nation. - Gustav Stresemann
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Just as a child respects his father even when he perceives his weaknesses and faults, so a German will not despise the old Germany which was once a symbol of greatness to him. - Gustav Stresemann
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To contrast national solidarity and international cooperation as two opposites seems foolish to me. - Gustav Stresemann
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In every man the memory of the struggles and the heroes of the past is alive. But these memories are not incompatible with the desire for peace in the future. - Gustav Stresemann
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Nothing in the reporting of a nation's history could so mislead the younger generation as to represent great events in such a way that they appear to have happened as a matter of course. - Gustav Stresemann
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Just as the British subject loves England despite her faults, so we must insist that all Germans who were part of the old Germany and helped shape her, recognize the greatness and worthiness of present-day Germany. - Gustav Stresemann
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The history of nations shows that words are not always immediately followed by action. - Gustav Stresemann
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Historians still often see the end of the war as meaning nothing more for Germany than lost territories, lost participation in colonization, and lost assets for the state and individuals. They frequently overlook the most serious loss that Germany suffered. - Gustav Stresemann
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As a result of the World War, this old Germany collapsed. It collapsed in its constitution, in its social order, in its economic structure. Its thinking and feeling changed. - Gustav Stresemann
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The great men of a nation reach out to all mankind. They are unifying, not divisive; internationally conciliating and still great nationally. - Gustav Stresemann
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