Always do the wrong thing

Submitted by cvining on

This is the most tactless speech I have ever heard. The Germans are really a stupid people. They always do the wrong thing.

Woodrow Wilson

On hearing a speech by German foreign minister Count Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau at negotiations for what became the Treaty of Versailles 1919

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"This is the most tactless speech I have ever heard. The Germans are really a stupid people. They always do the wrong thing. "
   --Woodrow Wilson, On hearing a speech by German foreign minister Count Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau at negotiations for what became the Treaty of Versailles 1919