Friedrich Ebert

Thus we have at least a national song that unites all Germans, and is the symbol of our sixty-million nation.

Without democracy there is no freedom. Violence, no matter who is using it, is always reactionary.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.