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Fourteen years since the war! Did you mark the date? What a long way we have traveled, as peoples, from that bitterness!
We are vain and we are dishonest because it is necessary to triumph over other vain and dishonest persons.
Who is this Adolf Hitler who seems rising toward power in Germany? I do not like what I read of him.
cautiously to myself I ask, a leader to where? Despair overthrown often turns us in mad directions.
Despair overthrown often turns us in mad directions.
History writes a clean new page.
It is impossible for me to be in correspondence with a Jew even if it were not that I have an official position to maintain.
The Jewish race is a sore spot to any nation that harbors it. I have never hated the individual Jew – yourself I have always cherished as a friend, but you will know that I speak in all honesty when I say I have loved you, not because of your race but in spite of it.
But this Jew trouble is only an incident. Something bigger is happening.
You lament but you are never brave enough to fight back. That is why there are pogroms.
The man I have loved as a brother, whose heart has ever been brimming with sympathy and friendship, cannot possibly partake of even a passive partnership in the butchery of innocent people.
A liberal is a man who does not believe in doing anything. He is a talker about the rights of man, but just a talker. He likes to make a big noise about freedom of speech, and what is freedom of speech? Just the chance to sit firmly on the backside and say that whatever is being done by the active men is wrong.
