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.

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.

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

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