To freeze time, to hold on to youth, this business makes no sense. It's always time that wins in the end.
Party domination and State leadership are concepts incompatible with one another.
But Hitler didn't strive for the annihilation of the Jews - he stressed that fact in public life and in the newspapers. Hitler merely said at the beginning that Jewish influence was too great, that of all the lawyers in Berlin, eighty percent were Jewish. Hitler thought that a small percentage of the people, the Jews, should not be allowed to control the theater, cinema, radio, et cetera.
We decline the claim to power by parties which want to own their followers body and soul, and which want to put themselves over and above the whole nation.
Allow me to say how manly and humanly great of you I think this is. Your courageous and firm intervention have met with nothing but recognition throughout the entire world. I congratulate you for all you have given anew to the German nation by crushing the intended second revolution.
The nation demands a movement which has written upon its banner the internal and external national freedom that it will act as if it were the spiritual, social and political conscience of the nation.
It is to be hoped that the leaders of this movement will place the nation above the party.
This is an age of science. . . . All important fields of activity from the breeding of bees to the administration of an empire, call for an understanding of the spirit and the technique of modern science. The nations that do not cultivate the sciences cannot hold their own.
Statistics is the grammar of science.
Many persons of high intelligence have notoriously poor judgement.
Before we can pray for God's blessing, we should ask ourselves if our disobedience could hinder his blessing.