Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a socialist.

If you're not living I mean really living, you're dead already.

Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a socialist.

First they went after the Communists, and I did not stand up, because I was not a Communist. Then they went after the homosexuals and infirm, and I did not stand up, because I was neither. Then they went after the Jews, and I did not stand up, because I was not a Jew. Then they went after the Catholics, and I did not stand up, because I was Protestant. Finally, they went after me, and there was no one left to stand up for me.

Ask the first man you meet what he means by defending freedom, and he'll tell you privately he means defending the standard of living.

More than fifty-five years ago my father told me, "The Bible does not belong on the shelf but in your hand, under your eye, and in your heart."

There was no one left to speak for me.