Necessary
is... a reform of the law. Present law is only the law of the individual. It
does not know the protection of the race, the protection of the folk community.
Soiling of national honor, of national greatness (was) permitted. Law, which
distances itself so much from the concept of the folk community, requires
reform.
Speech of
April 27, 1923 in Munich
Our
legal system must first serve the preservation of this folk- community. The
irremovability of the judges on the one side must correspond to an elasticity
of judgment for the benefit of society. Not the individual can be the center
point of legal concern, rather the folk. Treason against country and treason
against folk should in the future be purged with all ruthlessness. The basis
for the existence of jurisprudence can be no other than the basis of the
existence of the nation.
Speech of
March 23, 1933 in Berlin
All
great legislative works have the advantage of making use of a certain lapidary
brevity. In such cases the legislator has the task to seek out the damaged
point on the motor of communal life and there create change. A sharp
distinction must thus be made between the law and the temporary execution
regulations. The purpose must not only lie at the basis of the law, rather the
purpose must also be clearly visible in each line.
Open Letter to
Brüning of December 13, 1931
The
worth of a law lies neither in the time spent for it nor in the external
magnitude, rather exclusively in the final spiritual content. The lightning of
a genius has in all times more thoroughly enlightened the world than a thousand
smoking pitch-torches of much of the art of decrees and legislation.
Open letter to
Brüning of December 13, 1931
We
have...begun the struggle for new law. We want to restore trust in our
jurisprudence. For this purpose, we set the principle that everybody is equal
before the law and before right, and we have hesitated not a second to reach
into the Reich Cabinet in order to have an offender punished without
consideration of who he was and what he was.
Speech of
October 24, 1933 in Berlin
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