Otto Hermann Kahn Quotations

The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.

As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends.

The appeal all too often is to the gallery, hungry for sensation.

The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied. Liberty is not foolproof. For its beneficent working it demands self-restraint, a sane and clear recognition of the practical and attainable, and of the fact that there are laws of nature which are beyond our power to change.

As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends. Liberty in the wild and freakish hands of fanatics has once more, as frequently in the past, proved the effective helpmate of autocracy and the twin-brother of tyranny.