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"All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind."

"She has great problems of her own to solve, very grim and perilous problems, and a right solution, if we can attain to it, would largely benefit mankind."

"I like to watch mankind in its futile attempt to understand the unknown, when they don't even understand that which they know."

"Mankind have their local attachments. They have a particular regard for the spot, in which they were born and nurtured."

"If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures."

"Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious."
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"For the victor peace means the preservation of the position of power which he has secured. For the vanquished it means resigning himself to the position left to him."

"The concept of active cooperation has taken the place of opposition to the new form of government and of dreamy resignation entranced with the beauty of times past."

"The great men of a nation reach out to all mankind. They are unifying, not divisive; internationally conciliating and still great nationally."

"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."

"Voices were heard from the United States of America which made it clear that America wanted a peaceful and united Europe as a basis for mutual cooperation."

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

"Dante can be understood only within the context of Italian thought, and Faust would be unthinkable if divorced from its German background; but both are part of our common cultural heritage."

"But just as haste and restlessness are typical of our present-day life, so change also takes place more rapidly than before. This applies to change in the relationships between nations as it does to change within an individual nation."

"In every man the memory of the struggles and the heroes of the past is alive. But these memories are not incompatible with the desire for peace in the future."
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