Echoes from the Past (#2)

"You refuse, as a 'statesman,' to admit that if we come to power legally we could then break through legality.  Herr Chancellor, the fundamental thesis of democracy runs, 'All power issues from the People.'  The constitution lays down the ways by which a conception, an idea, and therefore an organization, must gain from the people the legitimation for the realization of its aims.  But in the last resort, it is the People itself which determines the Constitution.  Herr Chancellor, if the German nation once empowers the National Socialist Movement to introduce a Constitution other than that which we have today, then you cannot stop it." --- Hitler to Hindenburg, October 14, 1932