Pop Quiz: Name the speaker and year.

In this hour I would ask of the Lord God only this: that, as in the past, so in the years to come He would give His blessing to our work and our action, to our judgement and our resolution, that He will safeguard us from all false pride and from all cowardly servility, that He may grant us to find the straight path which His Providence has ordained for the [American/German] people, and that He may ever give us the courage to do the right, never to falter, never to yield before any violence, before any danger…. I am convinced that men who are created by God should live in accordance with the will of the Almighty…. Thus it is that we [Americans/Christians/National Socialists], too, have in the depths of our hearts our faith. We cannot do otherwise: no man can fashion world-history or the history of peoples unless upon his purpose and his powers there rests the blessings of this Providence.

(a) George W. Bush, 2003
(b) Pat Robertson, 1993
(c) Adolf Hitler, 1937
(d) None of the above

Too easy? Or not? It’s AH, of course, in a speech at Wurzburg on June 27, 1937. How’s that little saying about being condemmed to repeat history go again?