Ferdinand Lassalle
Ferdinand Lassalle
Ferdinand Johann Gottlieb Lassalle, also known as Ferdinand Lassalle-Wolfson, was a German-Jewish jurist, philosopher, and socialist political activist. Lassalle is best remembered as an initiator of international-style socialism in Germany...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth11 April 1825
CountryGermany
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But you will understand by yourselves that the matter applies equally well to the organization of the officials of justice, of administrative officials, etc; these are likewise organized instruments of power in certain societies.
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Useful as a war against France, undertaken by the Government against the will of the people would be for our revolutionary development, just so dangerous must be the effect upon our democratic development of a war supported by blind popular enthusiasm.
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Then this will only prove again and again, that Monarchy in Germany is he longer capable of a national act.
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Only in a popular war against France... do I see a misfortune.
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Only to he avoid misunderstandings, I must say that even last year, when I wrote my pamphlet, I heartily wished that Prussia should declare war against Napoleon.
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But I felt all the more bound to make this proposal, because it at once turns to a reproach.
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The constitutional questions are in the first instance not questions of right but questions of might.
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From that moment on, the newspaper became a highly lucrative investment for those with a talent for making money or for publishers wanting to gain a fortune.
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Whoever lives in Berlin note, and doesn't die of Liberalism, will never die of vexation!
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Labor is the source of all wealth and all culture.