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“History must speak for itself. A historian is content if he has been able to shed more light.”
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William L. Shirer
#Light Quotes
#Able Quotes
#Speak Quotes
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“Perhaps America will one day go fascist democratically, by popular vote.”
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William L. Shirer
Source : The New York Times, p. 36, December 29, 1969.
#America Quotes
#Voting Quotes
#One Day Quotes
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“Most true happiness comes from one's inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul. Admittedly, a good inner life is difficult to achieve, especially in these trying times. It takes reflection and contemplation and self-discipline.”
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William L. Shirer
#Reflection Quotes
#Self Quotes
#Discipline Quotes
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“The Nazi regime intended eventually to destroy Christianity in Germany, if it could, and substitute the old paganism of the early Germanic gods and the new paganism of the Nazi extremists.”
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William L. Shirer
Source : William L. Shirer, Ron Rosenbaum (2011). “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany”, p.240, Simon and Schuster
#Christian Quotes
#Religious Quotes
#Paganism Quotes
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“Until we go through it ourselves, until our people cower in the shelters of New York, Washington, Chicago, Los Angeles and elsewhere while the buildings collapse overhead and burst into flames, and dead bodies hurtle about and, when it is over for the day or the night, emerge in the rubble to find some of their dear ones mangled, their homes gone, their hospitals, churches, schools demolished - only after that gruesome experience will we realize what we are inflicting on the people of Indochina.”
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William L. Shirer
#New York Quotes
#War Quotes
#School Quotes
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“Chamberlain's stubborn, fanatical insistence on giving Hitler what he wanted, his trips to Berchtesgaden and Godesberg and finally the fateful journey to Munich rescued Hitler from his limb and strengthened his position in Europe, in Germany, in the Army, beyond anything that could have been imagined a few weeks before. It also added immeasurably to the power of the Third Reich.”
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William L. Shirer
Source : "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany". Book by William L. Shirer, 1960.
#Army Quotes
#Journey Quotes
#Europe Quotes
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“Most true happiness comes from one's inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul.”
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William L. Shirer
#Soul Quotes
#Mind Quotes
#True Happiness Quotes
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“In our new age of terrifying, lethal gadgets, which supplanted so swiftly the old one, the first great aggressive war, if it should come, will be launched by suicidal little madmen pressing an electronic button. Such a war will not last long and none will ever follow it. There will be no conquerors and no conquests, but only the charred bones of the dead on and uninhabited planet.”
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William L. Shirer
Source : William L. Shirer (2011). “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich”, p.12, RosettaBooks
#War Quotes
#Suicidal Quotes
#Long Quotes
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“Adolf Hitler is probably the last of the great adventurer-conquerors in the tradition of Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon, and the Third Reich the last of the empires which set out on the path taken earlier by France, Rome and Macedonia. The curtain was rung down on that phase of history, at least, by the sudden invention of the hydrogen bomb, of the ballistic missile and of rockets that can be aimed to hit the moon.”
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William L. Shirer
Source : William L. Shirer (2011). “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich”, p.12, RosettaBooks
#Taken Quotes
#Moon Quotes
#Rome Quotes
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“No class or group or party in Germany could escape its share of responsibility for the abandonment of the democratic Republic and the advent of Adolf Hitler. The cardinal error of the Germans who opposed Nazism was their failure to unite against it.”
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William L. Shirer
Source : William L. Shirer, Ron Rosenbaum (2011). “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany”, p.185, Simon and Schuster
#Party Quotes
#Responsibility Quotes
#Class Quotes
