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Heinrich von Treitschke Quotes

1834–1896 Germany

Heinrich Gotthard von Treitschke (15 September 1834 – 28 April 1896) was a German historian, political writer and National Liberal member of the Reichstag during the time of the German Empire. He was an outspoken nationalist, who favored German colonialism and opposed the British Empire.

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Those who preach the nonsense of eternal peace do not understand Aryan national life.

The enlargement of Prussian power is little by little becoming a demand of justice.

Statement (1869)

A thousand touching traits testify to the sacred power of the love which a righteous war awakes in noble nations.

God will see to it that war always recurs as a drastic medicine for the human race.

War is elevating, because the individual disappears before the great conception of the state…. What a perversion of morality to wish to abolish heroism among men!

All treaties between nations are valid only with the reservation clause: rebus sic stantibus. They do not pledge a State for ever.

Statement (1869)

Among the workers there is spreading a theory of the absolute blessedness of peace, which is a scandal to the intelligence and moral energy of our age; a hotch-potch of phrases, so clear that everybody reposts them, and so miserable that every man who is a man throws them overboard at once when the majesty of war arises in bodily form before the people.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Heinrich von Treitschke (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.