A people that has experienced all that the Germans have been through, naturally offers fertile soil for the extremists.

If one seeks to analyze experiences and reactions to the first postwar years, I hope one may say without being accused of bias that it is easier for the victor than for the vanquished to advocate peace.

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.

Dante can be understood only within the context of Italian thought, and Faust would be unthinkable if divorced from its German background; but both are part of our common cultural heritage.

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.

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

For the victor peace means the preservation of the position of power which he has secured. For the vanquished it means resigning himself to the position left to him.