If I go with a burning pipe over the hayloft of my own scouring, some embers fall out, the scouring burns off, - what do you think, what happens to me, although perhaps not even someone else has come to harm except myself?

If, as an employee of Meier, I give fifty marks to a poor traveler who takes me out of the fund entrusted to me-the amount the boss takes out every night to make him jubilant-do you think they will let me do that? >> read more

The referendum initiated by the Communist Party, which wanted to ban the construction of warships, has failed. Only about two million votes have been cast, half the number that would have been necessary to bring the proposed law before the Reichstag and a possible later referendum. >> read more

The "Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung" recently pointed out the downright suicidal blindness with which the republic ignored the inevitable needs of the German people for fanfare and clinker of orders. >> read more

No political slogan has to accept gross misunderstandings and stupid interpretations than the old democratic demand-or assertion-of the equality of all citizens. >> read more

The socialist economy, it is said, will produce for the needs, not for the market. It will proceed according to schedule and evenly, not chaotically and jerkily. Not just any individual, neither as an entrepreneur nor as a trader nor as a customer, will have the word in it ... >> read more

So, so: once again a memorandum is being worked out in the Reich Ministry of the Interior. About the "reasons for the decline in the birth rate". Very interesting. Yes, what are the reasons? >> read more

The agreement with France expressly renouncing Alsace-Lorraine, which is now under the presidency of Hindenburg by a German national government, would have been a few years earlier at the top of our foreign policy program. >> read more

The poor German people have been dragged into an unfortunate war by the narrow-mindedness and frivolity of a government that was alien and incomprehensible to its experience and suffering. >> read more

The subject of Schairer's doctoral thesis is Schubart's "Deutsche Chronik" (German Chronicle), which has registered the author's ten-year imprisonment on the Hohenasperg. Schairer examines the reasons why the political ideas and movements in France and North America during the second half of the eighteenth century in Germany were literarily taken up by individual authors, but did not spread ... >> read more

It is quite right that general conscription is an old democratic idea, even though in Wilhelmine Germany it may have been so greatly disfigured by officer privilege and military drift. Go to Switzerland, which owes its existence to you ... >> read more