“It is conceivable that a party might gain the majority in parliament a...” — Franz von Papen Quote

“It is conceivable that a party might gain the majority in parliament and claims the government for itself.”

“The essence of conservative ideology is its being anchored in the divine order of things.”

“We decline the claim to power by parties which want to own their followers body and soul, and which want to put themselves over and above the whole nation.”

“At the U.N., I routinely encounter countries that do not want to impose sanctions or even to enforce those already on the books. The hard-line sanctions skeptics have their own self-interested reasons for opposing sanctions, but they ground their opposition in claims that America uses sanctions to inflict punishment for punishment's sake.”

“The slaveholders are terrible for promising to give you this or that, or such and such a privilege, if you will do thus and so, and when the time of fulfillment comes, and one claims the promise, they, forsooth, recollect nothing of the kind; and you are, like as not, taunted with being a liar.”