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The Soviet Government and the Soviet people should not lend themselves to co-operating in the conversion into a concentration camp of part of a large neighbouring country against the will of its inhabitants.

— Konrad Adenauer

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One does not throw out dirty water as long as one doesn't have any clean water.

In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that he did not also limit his stupidity.

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We will never forget. If it takes us five or ten or twenty years, we will never rest until we get our revenge.

I see the significance of the Marshall Plan in the fact that probably for the first time in history a victorious country held out its hand so that the vanquished might rise again.

I wish that an English statesman might once have spoken of us as Western Europeans.

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