Daily quote by Otto Wels

• Freiheit und Leben kann man uns nehmen, die Ehre nicht.
  Freedom and life can be taken from us, but not our honor.
  • Otto Wels's Speech against the Passage of the Enabling Act (March 23, 1933), in Paul Meier-Benneckenstein, ed., Dokumente der deutschen Politik, Volume 1: Die Nationalsozialistische Revolution 1933, edited by Axel Friedrichs. Berlin, 1935, pp. 36-38. (online in German and English)
  • Wels was the only German politician to speak against the Nazi Party's Enabling Act of 1933. In this passage, he directly addresses Adolf Hitler in reference to attacks carried out against the Social Democratic Party of Germany of which he was leader.