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

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

The courtesy which most becomes a victor was denied to Germany for a long time.

As a confirmed individualist I certainly do not wish to underrate the influence of the individual, for the masses do not lead the individual; rather, in the individual is vested the capacity to lead the masses.

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.

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