German King Henry

Famous quotes containing the words german, king and/or henry:

    “Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.”
    —Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919)

    “This was the merriest old man that we had ever seen, and one of the best preserved. His style of conversation was coarse and plain enough to have suited Rabelais. He would have made a good Panurge. Or rather he was a sober Silenus, and we were the boys Chromis and Mnasilus, who listened to his story.... There was a strange mingling of past and present in his conversation, for he had lived under King George, and might have remembered when Napoleon and the moderns generally were born.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.”
    —Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)