Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-11-10
BismarCk's Philosophy.
GLondon Daily Chronicle.I

For me the words, by Gods
grace" which Christian Princes add
to their names, are no empty sound.
see in them the avowal the Princes
will WELD the seeptre given them by
God according to the will of God. L
believe that the aim of the State Is
the realization of Christian doctrine.
A decision as to principles is never
arrived at by parliamentary debate
nor by majorities.
Appeals to what they do in Eng
land are our misfortune. Give US
everything English that we have not
got-English fear of God, English
veneration for the law, the entire
English constitution, and also the
whole English riches, English COM
mon seuse-espeeially the English
House OF COmmons-in a word, ev-
erything which we have not; and
then also will say, "You can rule
us as the English are ruled.''
y certain amount Of positive Chris
tianity is necessary for the ordinary
man, if he is not to become dangerous
to human society. The t-iief IN the,
revealed word OF God is ffrmer root
ell in the people than the belief in
tho s.nctifying power of any parric-
ular article Of the constitution
There is nothing on earth but by
pOcrisy and juggling.
In Gods almighty hand we are
without counsel and helpless If He
Will not help us. We can only bow
ourselves in humility to His decree.
We Germans are too we'll educated,
too critical, to tolerate constitution.
Tie entire constitutional life Is al
ways line Of compromises.
Political questions are questions of
power, not of right
The longer j work at politics the
less do believe on hnman reckoning.
When the foundations of the State
are attacked from the barricades and
from the republicans, I consider it
my duty to stand in the breach.
Christianity and my faith demand
this of me.
Bravery in special cases is not TO
be rewarded-it is the common pos
session of German soldiers.
The tax which the empire most
needs is usually that which is said to
press with greatest severity on the
poor man.
We are not going to Canossa- neith-
er physically nor spiritually.
So long as the great monarchies of
Europe stick together, no republic
can be dangerous to them.
My duties to the State shall not be
suspended because Of my respect for
the dogmas of others.
Our German national character
wishes always to have the best, and
loses thereby the good.
The minister who imposes the tax
es should not be at the same time
minister of finance.
The ability to read is more widely
spread in Germany than in France
or England; the ability to make o
decision or to reason from what has
been read is more widely distributed
there than here.
Abstract doctrines of science leave
me quite cold; act according to the
experience 1 have had.
/ have never left a glove lying
which has been thrown down for me.
All unrest in the empire. all Diff
ficulties in the way of our flOurishing,
come from the party of the progress
For me there is only one compass,
one solitary Polar Star, by which I
steer-salus publica.
1 shall not allow myself to be dis
mayed by a majority in the Reich
stag; combined Europe has not over
awed me.
The freedom of the church mean
the rule of the church.
Peace between King and priest
will always remain a squaring of the
circle. You come very near it often,
but never reach it.
The Gordian knot which tied the
national rights of Germans, the right
to live and breathe as a great nation,
could only have been loosened by
the sword. ---