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Klemens von Metternich Quotes

1773–1859 Austria

Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar, Prince of Metternich-Winneburg zu Beilstein (15 May 1773 – 11 June 1859), was an Austrian diplomat who was at the center of European affairs for three decades as the Austrian Empire's foreign minister from 1809 and Chancellor from 1821 until the liberal Revolutions of 1848 forced his resignation.

Austria

Also known as: Metternich

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Italy is only a geographical expression.

To ruin those who possess something is not to come to the aid of those who possess nothing; it is only to render misery general.

I made history and therefore did not find time to write it.

I shall die as I have lived, not as a politician but as a socialist.

Statement (1849)

There is a wide sweep about my mind. I am always above and beyond the preoccupation of most public men; I cover a ground much vaster than they can see. I cannot keep myself from saying about twenty times a day: 'How right I am, and how wrong they are.'

But what did he mean by that?

Attribution

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