Albert Hopman Quotes
For the last 25 years we have lived with a playful, unreasoning absolutism that found fulfillment in empty appearances and a vain craving for status which the nation indulged for too long…. Absolutist government was responsible for our failure to produce statesmen, and instead only bureaucrats and lackeys.
See {642230} for has additional views on German leadership. Many serious Germans agreed but the culture, concept of patriotism, and the laws did not encourage open discussion of negative things about the nation.
Albert Hopman, 1865-1942, German Admiral, Statement to Admiral Tirpitz, Quoted in Max Hastings, Catastrophe: Europe Goes To War 1914, 2013
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See {642231} for has additional views on German leadership. Many serious Germans agreed, but the culture, concept of patriotism, and the laws did not encourage open discussion of negative things about the nation so the problem remained.
The Priest was the right wing demagogic radio host of his day. Virulently anti-Semitic and anti-Black, he was threatened with excommunication by the Catholic Church, which finally ordered him to cease us weekly radio show and stop the political hate.
In an irony, the first President limited by a term limit amendment pushed by Republicans remembering FDR turned out to be fellow Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower.
When he became president himself, he not only served 10 years but changed the constitution so that he could serve forever and was still President over 20 years later. See {620732} for another similar statement.
She was at the time the European Commissioner for Competition
