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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.

Otto Hermann Kahn

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.

Otto Hermann Kahn

Otto Hermann Kahn

Otto Hermann Kahn

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Born: February 21, 1867

Died: March 29, 1934 (aged 67)

Bio: Otto Hermann Kahn was a German-born investment banker, collector, philanthropist, and patron of the arts.

Known for:

The poison growth of Prussianism (1918)
Frenzied liberty (1918)
High finance (1916)
Right Above Race (1918)
War taxation

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