“The malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous.”
“It is my purpose, as one who lived and acted in these days, first to show how easily the tragedy of the Second World War could have been prevented; how the malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous...”
“The wicked are wicked, no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by their deserts; but who can tell the mischief which the very virtuous do?”
“If he sends reinforcements everywhere, he will everywhere be weak.”
“The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.”
“No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.”