Mankind advances only through struggle.

Mankind advances only through struggle.

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.

A Shakespeare could have arisen only on English soil. In the same way, your great dramatists and poets express the nature and essence of the Norwegian people, but they also express that which is universally valid for all mankind.

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.

During the past few years I have led a sometimes hard battle for German foreign policy.

To contrast national solidarity and international cooperation as two opposites seems foolish to me.