Frases de Konrad Adenauer

„Não é assustador saber que a sabedoria humana é limitada, mas a tolice humana, não?“

—  Konrad Adenauer

„Em política, o importante não é ter razão, mas que a dêem a alguém.“

—  Konrad Adenauer

„Todo o partido existe para o povo e não para si mesmo.“

—  Konrad Adenauer

„Não é errado defender sempre a mesma opinião porque ninguém pode impedir de voltar-se mais sábio.“

—  Konrad Adenauer

„A história é a soma das coisas que poderiam ter sido evitadas.“

—  Konrad Adenauer

„Vivemos todos sob o mesmo céu, mas nem todos temos os mesmos horizontes.“

—  Konrad Adenauer

Wir leben zwar alle unter einem Himmel, aber wir haben nicht alle den gleichen Horizont!
citado em "Anekdoten um Konrad Adenauer‎" - Página 45, de Daniela Krein - Publicado por Kemper, 1960 - 115 páginas

„Os Estados totalitários conhecem apenas um fator determinante, que é o poder.“

—  Konrad Adenauer

Variante: Os Estados totalitários conhecem apenas um factor determinante, que é o poder.

„In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that he did not also limit his stupidity.“

—  Konrad Adenauer

As quoted in A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House (1965) by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., p. 291 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=uFhNxX5lrNEC&pg=PA291&dq=stupidity

„We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.“

—  Konrad Adenauer

Reader's Digest 1972, p. 194 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=ctsnAQAAIAAJ&q=adenauer

„I wish that an English statesman might once have spoken of us as Western Europeans.“

—  Konrad Adenauer

Adenauer's remarks on an Associated Press interview (5 October 1945)

„Make Europe your revenge.“

—  Konrad Adenauer

To French PM Guy Mollet after British PM Sir Anthony Eden unilaterally cancelled the Suez operation, thus angering Mollet. (6 November 1956), as quoted in Europe's Troubled Peace, 1945-2000 (2006) by Tom Buchanan, p.102, 2nd ed. 2012 p. 84 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=cAHcBeZhm6UC&pg=PA84&dq=revenge

„What do I care about my chitchat from yesterday?“

—  Konrad Adenauer

As quoted in Discussion : Mastering the Skills of Moderation (2009) by Horst Hanisch, p. 91

„One does not throw out dirty water as long as one doesn't have any clean water.“

—  Konrad Adenauer

Statement about Hans Globke, as quoted in "In eigener Sache" at n-tv (8 June 2006) http://www.n-tv.de/politik/BND-ueberprueft-Eichmann-Infos-article184945.html

„I reserve the right to be smarter today than I was yesterday.“

—  Konrad Adenauer

As quoted in Loggers' Handbook Vol. 36 (1976), p. 72; also in North Western Reporter, Second series (1992) https://books.google.com/books?id=I1KaAAAAIAAJ; similar remarks have been attributed to others, including more recent attributions to Adlai Stevenson and Abraham Lincoln.
Variant:
I insist on being smarter today than I was yesterday.
As quoted in How to Win the Meeting (1979) by Frank Snell, p. 3

„We will never forget. If it takes us five or ten or twenty years, we will never rest until we get our revenge.“

—  Konrad Adenauer

As quoted by General Sir Charles Fergusson in a memorandum (10 July 1945), recalling conversations with Adenauer in 1918-1919, at the end of World War I. As published in Adenauer : The Father of the New Germany (2000) by Charles Williams, p. 293 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=7mhpKYpugJsC&pg=PA293