Weimar Republic/golden Era 1924%e2%80%931929

Famous quotes containing the words republic, golden and/or era:

    “Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions. A Republic is a government in which that attention is divided between many, who are all doing uninteresting actions. Accordingly, so long as the human heart is strong and the human reason weak, Royalty will be strong because it appeals to diffused feeling, and Republics weak because they appeal to the understanding.”
    —Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)

    “I’d let my golden chances pass me by.”
    —Oscar Hammerstein II (1895–1960)

    “The purest lesson our era has taught is that man, at his highest, is an individual, single, isolate, alone, in direct soul-communication with the unknown God, which prompts within him.”
    —D.H. (David Herbert)