I am full of prejudices, which, as I have said, I have sucked in
with my mother's milk; I cannot argue them away; for if I think
of a Jew face to face with me as a representative of the King's
sacred Majesty, and I have to obey him, I must confess that I
should feel myself deeply broken and depressed; the sincere
self-respect with which I now attempt to fulfil my duties towards
the State would leave me. I share these feelings with the mass of
the lower strata of the people, and I am not ashamed of their
society."

And then he spoke of the Christian State:

"It is as old as every European State; it is the ground in which
they have taken root; no State has a secure existence unless it
has a religious foundation. For me, the words, 'by the Grace of
God,' which Christian rulers add to their name, are no empty
phrase; I see in them a confession that the Princes desire to
wield the sceptre which God has given them according to the will
of God on earth. As the will of God I can only recognise that
which has been revealed in the Christian Gospel--I believe that
the realisation of Christian teaching is the end of the State; I
do not believe that we shall more nearly approach this end by the
help of the Jews.... If we withdraw this foundation, we retain in
a State nothing but an accidental aggregate of rights, a kind of
bulwark against the war of all against all, which ancient
philosophy has assumed. Therefore, gentlemen, do not let us spoil
the people of their Christianity; do not let us take from them
the belief that our legislation is drawn from the well of
Christianity, and that the State aims at the realisation of
Christianity even if it does not attain its end."