Klemens von Metternich Quotes
Men like M. de Talleyrand are like sharp instruments with which it is dangerous to play.
Metternich, Klemens von. Dispatch to Count Stadion, 1808. Memoirs of Prince Metternich, 1773-1815, edited by Richard von Metternich, translated by Mrs. Alexander Napier, vol. 2, Richard Bentley & Son, 1880, p. 182.
Executed by the English for his part in the Easter Uprising.
Austin was negotiating as a person loyal to Mexico for the territory of Texas. He spent much time in Mexico City and even renounced his U. S. citizenship and applied for Mexican citizenship. But his negotiations were always forcefully for Texas which was viewed very differently by the many Mexican political factions. In 1834 he was jailed for sedition caught between diverse Mexican interests and his vision of Texas.
Both Hitler and Stalin were gross egomaniacs who each thought that they had gotten the better of things. The result was that 22 million Russians were killed and the industrial base if Russia Was destroyed. On the German side, the German military was virtually destroyed, many civilians were killed, the nation reduced to rubble and starvation, German leaders were killed, jailed or committed suicide including Hitler, and the country was occupied for years. Neither leader appeared very smart if one judges by the results.
Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar, Prince of Metternich-Winneburg zu Beilstein, 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.
