You must devote your gift to speaking in public, you must endeavor to become a deputy.

If you fail in this, you will sin against our people." "Bravo! I had already thought of that," cried Paul.
"A deputy--never," said Wilhelm.

"If I spoke well to-day it was because I was sorry for the poor, ignorant men who listened to the silly talk of a fool as if it were a revelation from Mount Sinai, but I could never presume to have any influence in Parliament or in the fate of governments." "And so you call what is every citizen's duty 'presumption,'" "Forgive me, doctor, if I say I do not believe that.

Only those who are acquainted with the laws and their development should have anything to do with the nation's destiny.

But only a few isolated individuals know these laws, and I am not one of them." "Do you think that the government know them ?" "Oh, no." "And yet the government does not hesitate to rule the people's destiny according to their intelligence." "It reminds me of the poet's expression, 'Du glaubst zu schieben und du wirst geschoben.'" "What is the movement that you mean ?" "An unknown inner organic force which defines all the expressions of life, of single individuals and united societies alike.