East Francia/louis The German 843-876

Famous quotes containing the words east, louis and/or german:

    “The beds i’ th’ East are soft.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Pieces of eight! pieces of eight! pieces of eight!”
    —Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)

    “Should the German people lay down their arms, the Soviets ... would occupy all eastern and south-eastern Europe together with the greater part of the Reich. Over all this territory, which with the Soviet Union included, would be of enormous extent, an iron curtain would at once descend.”
    —Joseph Goebbels (1897–1945)