Quotations are a popular way to underline what one means.
According to their cultural background, quotations can be associated with different contents. Subsequently, in Great Britain it became associated with Harold Macmillan's Cabinet dimissals of 13 July 1962. Quotations are only as good as the person who uses them. In 1941, German poet August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben wrote the famous lines that later became the lyrics of the German national anthem. As democratic Germany reintroduced the poem as its anthem, there was great uproar abroad where this was falsely interpreted as a step back to nationalism though it only meant the reaffirmation of Germany's unity.