Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 1349 |
| AUTHOR: | Adolf Lasson (1832–1917) |
| QUOTATION: | We are morally and intellectually superior to all men. We are peerless. So, too, are our organizations and our institutions. [Germany was] the most perfect political creation known to history, [the Kaiser] deliciae humani generis, [and the Imperial Chancellor, Herr von Bethmann-Hollweg] the most eminent of living men. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | This noted Hegelian philosopher and German nationalist is also quoted by Georges Clemenceau, Grandeur and Misery of Victory, p. 278 (1930). |
| SUBJECTS: | Perfection |