Quotes by Franz Papen

• It is conceivable that a party might gain the majority in parliament and claims the government for itself.
• It is to be hoped that the leaders of this movement will place the nation above the party.
• Names and individuals are unimportant when Germany's final fate is at stake.
• Party domination and State leadership are concepts incompatible with one another.
• The essence of conservative ideology is its being anchored in the divine order of things.
• The nation demands a movement which has written upon its banner the internal and external national freedom that it will act as if it were the spiritual, social and political conscience of the nation.
• We decline the claim to power by parties which want to own their followers body and soul, and which want to put themselves over and above the whole nation.