 The history of nations shows that words are not always immediately followed by action. |
| But just as haste and restlessness are typical of our present-day life, so change also takes place more rapidly than before. This applies to change in the relationships between nations as it does to change within an individual nation. |
| The great men of a nation reach out to all mankind. They are unifying, not divisive; internationally conciliating and still great nationally. |
| Just as the child is father to the man, so the impressions of one's youth remain the most vivid in manhood. |
| Nothing is more misleading to the youth of a nation than to state the outcome immediately after the beginning as if nothing could have taken place in between. |
| To contrast national solidarity and international cooperation as two opposites seems foolish to me. |
| History uses a unit of measure for time that is different from that of the lifespan of the individual, whereas man is only too ready to measure the evolution of history by his own yardstick. |
| In every man the memory of the struggles and the heroes of the past is alive. But these memories are not incompatible with the desire for peace in the future. |
| During the past few years I have led a sometimes hard battle for German foreign policy. |
| Here we encounter two conflicting concepts with which we must come to grips in our time: the idea of national solidarity and the idea of international cooperation. |
| As a result of the World War, this old Germany collapsed. It collapsed in its constitution, in its social order, in its economic structure. Its thinking and feeling changed. |
