CARL FRIEDRICH WILHELM JORDAN

It is high time that we awaken from the romantic self-renunciation which made us admire all sorts of other nationalities while we ourselves languished in shameful bondage, trampled on by all the world; it is high time that we awaken to a healthy national egoism which, to put it frankly, places the welfare and honour of the fatherland above everything else.

I believe that it is the role of the German people to be great, to be one of those who rule.

Freedom for all; but the power and welfare of the fatherland above all.

Freedom for all; but the power and welfare of the fatherland above all.

It is high time that we awaken from the romantic self-renunciation which made us admire all sorts of other nationalities while we ourselves languished in shameful bondage, trampled on by all the world; it is high time that we awaken to a healthy national egoism which, to put it frankly, places the welfare and honour of the fatherland above everything else.

I believe that it is the role of the German people to be great, to be one of those who rule.