Great Northern War/1710-1716 - Sweden and Northern Germany

Famous quotes containing the words northern, war and/or germany:

“... in Northern Ireland, if you don’t have basic Christianity, rather than merely religion, all you get out of the experience of living is bitterness.”
—Bernadette Devlin (b. 1947)

“... the ... radio station played a Chopin polonaise. On all the following days news bulletins were prefaced by Chopin—preludes, etudes, waltzes, mazurkas. The war became for me a victory, known in advance, Chopin over Hitler.”
—Margaret Anderson (1886–1973)

“It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)