Arnold Ruge Quotes

I live in Europe and care about democracy and sovereignty of nation states there.

Even if I were knocked down by one gunshot it wouldn't affect our democracy and I wasn't knocked down and I have great confidence in our democracy and in Taiwan and in the people of Taiwan.

We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

If Germany wins, she will dominate France; the independence of Belgium, Holland, Denmark, and perhaps of Norway and Sweden, will be a mere shadow; their separate existence as nations will be fiction; all their harbours will be at Germany's disposal; she will dominate the whole of Western Europe, and this will make our position quite impossible. We could not exist as a first class State under such circumstances.

Where nationalism is the main issue, the demand for democracy always takes second place.

If you still hesitate for any time, there will be no way to rescue the Republic from the French yoke.

It is with great pleasure that I see the political system of almost every power in Europe changing in our favor since the news of our late successes.

We want a country which is not isolated and where democracy rules.

I like Macron a lot and I very much welcome him - particularly the fact that he made Europe one of the main topics of the election debate.

I will not hide from you my intention to unite Holland with France, both to complete my territory and as the deadliest blow I can inflict on England.

Partisan politics should stop at the boundaries of the United States.

No democracy pretends to be a tyranny. Most tyrannies pretend they are democracies. Democracy remains the definition of political legitimacy.

We should not replicate the situation where one country is in a situation to hijack the rest of Europe because they organize a referendum.

I am not interested in ratings by Freedom House or whatever.

France wants Britain to remain in the E.U.; indeed, how can we imagine that friendly nation that is our ally and played a role on the international stage could be outside the E.U.?

Merkel is an amazing woman, very experienced in international politics.

Democracies are slow to anger and hesitant to go to war: Voters don't want to sacrifice their children for the glory of a selfish king.

Our Founders were not naive simpletons. They understood that human freedom is a fragile thing, that 'eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.'

However painful or regrettable Brexit may be, it will not stop the E.U. as it moves to the future; we need to move forward.

I'm going to try and make people realize that in order to live the life they are living, they need to have democracy, and it's being threatened.

You don't have to be a brilliant historian to know that in Europe, messing with countries' borders, messing with their self-determination, their ability to choose their own futures, this is extremely dangerous, and that's why I think it is important to stand up to Putin.

A lot of people want to see a last fight, but I am now engaged in a different fight - one that is much harder, much more vicious, and much more important to me. I am fighting for democracy and fighting for Ukraine.

The Franco-German tandem at the core of post-war European integration has become lopsided. Relations between Berlin and Paris are unusually poor, with some French politicians decrying the 'selfish intransigence' in the euro crisis of Germany's chancellor, Angela Merkel.

However flawed democracy is, it is still the only answer.

If Europe does not return to the path of common sense, it will find itself laid low in a battle for its fate.