I found myself without money, without credit, without army, without experience and knowledge of my own, and finally, also without any counsel, because each one of them at first wanted to wait and see how things would develop.

I know of no greater plague than this race, which on account of its deceit, usury and avarice is driving my subjects into beggary. Therefore as far as possible, the Jews are to be kept away and avoided.

What right have we to rob an innocent nation that it has hitherto been our boast to protect and support?

The school is and will always remain a matter of state.

The mercy of late birth.

-- Helmut Kohl

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

-- Nelson Mandela

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

-- Dwight D. Eisenhower

There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight.

-- Woodrow Wilson

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

-- Abraham Lincoln

A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.

-- Abraham Lincoln