For the old great, mighty Germany, which was the epitome of the yearning of our ancestors and our pride when one could still hold one's head high at being a German, is going under. One cannot say: it is long gone because it is not long at all but already it sounds to our ears like a fairy tale from a distant time.


Letter to his sons (21 June 1919), quoted in Jonathan Wright, Gustav Stresemann: Weimar's Greatest Statesman (Oxford University Press, 2004), pp. 135-136.

Gustav Stresemann Quotes

For the old great, mighty Germany, which was the epitome of the yearning of our ancestors and our pride when one could still hold one's head high at...

For the old great, mighty Germany, which was the epitome of the yearning of our ancestors and our pride when one could still hold one's head high at...

For the old great, mighty Germany, which was the epitome of the yearning of our ancestors and our pride when one could still hold one's head high at...

For the old great, mighty Germany, which was the epitome of the yearning of our ancestors and our pride when one could still hold one's head high at...