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Germany is a European Parliament constituency for elections in the European Union covering the member state of Germany. It is currently represented by ninety-six Members of the European Parliament, the most of any European Parliament constituency. Current Members of the European Parliament Elections 1979

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“The Germans, both because of their intense democracy and also because they were as a rule people of limited capital and dependent on their own labor and skill for a livelihood, were not favorable to the institution of slavery.”
— A Twentieth Century History of Southwest Texas: Illustrated, vol. 1 (New York: Lewis Publishing Co., 1907), ch. 19 (p. 193)
“Unity and justice and freedom for the German fatherland! Let us all strive for this purpose, brotherly with heart and hand! Unity and justice and freedom are the pledge of happiness. Bloom in the glow of happiness! Bloom, German fatherland!”
— August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, Das Lied der Deutschen (1841)
“As long as there is a wall, barbed wire and orders to shoot, there can be no talk of normality in Germany.”
— Helmut Kohl, as quoted in "East, West Mark Berlin Wall in Conflicting Ways" (14 August 1986), The Washington Post
“Der Satan der italienischen und englischen Dichter mag poetischer sein; aber der deutsche Satan ist satanischer; und insofern könnte man sagen, der Satan sei eine deutsche Erfindung.”
— The Satan of the Italian and English poets may be more poetic; but the German Satan is more satanic; and in this respect one could say, the Satan is a German invention.
“Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.”
— Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889), Ch. 22.
“We have 500,000 reservists in America who would rise in arms against your government if you dare to make a move against Germany.”
— Arthur Zimmermann, to Ambassador James W. Gerard. Gerard: "I told him that we had five hundred thousand and one lamp posts in America, and that was where the German reservists would find themselves if they tried any uprising." Ambassador Gerard's answer. James W. Gerard, My Four Years in Germany, p. 237. Zimmermann telegram

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Notable quotes

“The Germans, both because of their intense democracy and also because they were as a rule people of limited capital and dependent on their own labor and skill for a livelihood, were not favorable to the institution of slavery.”
— A Twentieth Century History of Southwest Texas: Illustrated, vol. 1 (New York: Lewis Publishing Co., 1907), ch. 19 (p. 193)
“Unity and justice and freedom for the German fatherland! Let us all strive for this purpose, brotherly with heart and hand! Unity and justice and freedom are the pledge of happiness. Bloom in the glow of happiness! Bloom, German fatherland!”
— August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, Das Lied der Deutschen (1841)
“As long as there is a wall, barbed wire and orders to shoot, there can be no talk of normality in Germany.”
— Helmut Kohl, as quoted in "East, West Mark Berlin Wall in Conflicting Ways" (14 August 1986), The Washington Post
“Der Satan der italienischen und englischen Dichter mag poetischer sein; aber der deutsche Satan ist satanischer; und insofern könnte man sagen, der Satan sei eine deutsche Erfindung.”
— The Satan of the Italian and English poets may be more poetic; but the German Satan is more satanic; and in this respect one could say, the Satan is a German invention.
“Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.”
— Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889), Ch. 22.
“We have 500,000 reservists in America who would rise in arms against your government if you dare to make a move against Germany.”
— Arthur Zimmermann, to Ambassador James W. Gerard. Gerard: "I told him that we had five hundred thousand and one lamp posts in America, and that was where the German reservists would find themselves if they tried any uprising." Ambassador Gerard's answer. James W. Gerard, My Four Years in Germany, p. 237. Zimmermann telegram

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