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For There Is Hardly A State Or Nation In Existence Which Has Not Once Had The Misfortune, Even If It Was In The Right A Thousand Times Over, To Be Defeated By A Stronger Opponent Or A Stronger Coalition.

-Adolf Hitler

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Adolf Hitler

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For There Is Hardly A State Or Nation In Existence Which Has Not Once Had The Misfortune, Even If It Was In The Right A Thousand Times Over, To Be Defeated By A Stronger Opponent Or A Stronger Coalition.

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Defend Paris To The Last, Destroy All Bridges Over The Seine And Devastate The City.

When Barbarossa Commences, The World Will Hold Its Breath And Make No Comment.

Since We Are Not In The League Of Nations In Any Case, We Do Not Devote Our Attention To Reflecting On Its Internal Reforms.

How Fortunate For Governments That People Do Not Think. There Is No Thinking Except In Giving And Executing Commands. If It Were Otherwise Human Society Could Not Exist.

Even Today I Am Not Ashamed To Say That, Overpowered By Stormy Enthusiasm, I Fell Down On My Knees And Thanked Heaven From An Overflowing Heart For Granting Me The Good Fortune Of Being Permitted To Live At This Time.

The Fight Against Syphilis Demands A Fight Against Prostitution, Against Prejudices, Old Habits, Against Previous Conceptions, General Views Among Them Not Least The False Prudery Of Certain Circles. The First Prerequisite For Even The Moral Right To Combat These Things Is The Facilitation Of Earlier Marriage For The Coming Generation.

The Best Characterization Is Provided By The Product Of This Religious Education, The Jew Himself. His Life Is Only Of This World, And His Spirit Is Inwardly As Alien To True Christianity As His Nature Two Thousand Years Previous Was To The Great Founder Of The New Doctrine.

Every Year A Thousand Kilometers Of Motor-roads Will Be Opened Until The Greatest Work In The History Of Mankind Is Completed.

Nothing Falls Into A Man's Lap From Heaven. It Is From Labour That Life Grows.

Only Force Rules. Force Is The First Law

Pressure Or Violence Will Ever Move Us To Relinquish Our Honor Or Our Equality Of Rights.

I Speak In The Name Of The Entire German People When I Assure The World That We All Share The Honest Wish To Eliminate The Enmity That Brings Far More Costs Than Any Possible Benefits. It Would Be A Wonderful Thing For All Of Humanity If Both Peoples Would Renounce Force Against Each Other Forever. The German People Are Ready To Make Such A Pledge.

The Grossly Impudent Lie Always Leaves Traces Behind It, Even After It Has Been Nailed Down.

As In Everything, Nature Is The Best Instructor.

Not As Tyrants Have We Come, But As Liberators.

The Greater The Crime Perpetrated By The Leadership, The Less Likely It Is That The People Will Ever Believe Their Leaders To Be Capable Of Perpetrating Such An Event.

The Truth Is The Best Propaganda.

Truly, This Earth Is A Trophy Cup For The Industrious Man. And This Rightly So, In The Service Of Natural Selection. He Who Does Not Possess The Force To Secure His Lebensraum In This World, And, If Necessary, To Enlarge It, Does Not Deserve To Possess The Necessities Of Life. He Must Step Aside And Allow Stronger Peoples To Pass Him By.

Particularly The Broad Masses Of The People Can Be Moved Only By The Power Of Speech.

I Am Asking Of No Man More Than I Myself Was Ready Throughout Four Years To Do

What We Suffer From Today Is An Excess Of Education.

Neither I Nor Anyone Else In Germany Would Even Consider Placing Any "conditions" On Our Possible Return To The League Of Nations. Whether Or Not We Return To This Body Depends Exclusively Upon Whether We Can Belong To It As A Completely Equal Nation. This Is Not A "condition," But A Matter Of Course.

The Hard Struggle Which The Pan-germans Fought With The Catholic Church Can Be Accounted For Only By Their Insufficient Understanding Of The Spiritual Nature Of The People.

I Die With A Joyful Heart In The Knowledge Of Our Infinite Achievements And Of A Contribution Unique In The History That Bears My Name.

The Primitive Simplicity Of Their Minds Renders Them A More Easy Prey To A Big Lie Than A Small One.

From Millions Of Men . . . One Man Must Step Forward Who With Apodictic Force Will Form Granite Principles From The Wavering Idea-world Of The Broad Masses And Take Up The Struggle For Their Sole Correctness, Until From The Shifting Waves Of A Fre Thought-world There Will Arise A Brazen Cliff Of Solid Unity In Faith And Will.

The Whole Of Education Should Be Designed So As To Occupy A Boy's Free Time In Cultivation Of His Body. He Has No Right To Loaf About Idly; But After His Day's Work Is Done, He Ought To Harden His Young Body, So That Life May Not Find Him Soft When He Enters It. No One Should Be Allowed To Sin At The Expense Of Posterity, That Is, Of The Race.

I Wish To Give Officials Greater Discretion. The State's Authority Will Be Increased Thereby. I Wish To Transform The Non-political Criminal Police Into A Political Instrument Of The Highest State Authority.

The Universalists, The Idealists, The Utopians All Aim Too High. They Give Promises Of An Unattainable Paradise, And By Doing So They Deceive Mankind. Whatever Label They Wear, Whether They Call Themselves Christians, Communists, Humanitarians, Whether They Are Merely Sincere But Stupid Or Wire-pullers And Cynics, They Are All Makers Of Slaves. I Myself Have Always Kept My Eye Fixed On A Paradise Which, In The Nature Of Things, Lies Well Within Our Reach. I Mean An Improvement In The Lot Of The German People. (21st February 1945)

Christianity Is The Worst Of The Regressions That Mankind Can Ever Have Undergone, And It's The Jew Who, Thanks To This Diabolic Invention, Has Thrown Him Back Fifteen Centuries. The Only Thing That Would Be Still Worse Would Be Victory For The Jew Through Bolshevism. If Bolshevism Triumphed, Mankind Would Lose The Gift Of Laughter And Joy. It Would Become Merely A Shapeless Mass, Doomed To Grayness And Despair.

Industry, Technology, And Commerce Can Thrive Only As Long As An Idealistic National Community Offers The Necessary Preconditions. And These Do Not Lie In Material Egoism, But In A Spirit Of Sacrifice And Joyful Renunciation.

He Who Would Live Must Fight. He Who Doesn't Wish To Fight In This World, Where Permanent Struggle Is The Law Of Life, Has Not The Right To Exist.

The Big Lie Is A Major Untruth Uttered Frequently By Leaders As A Means Of Duping And Controlling The Constituency.

Never Forget That The Most Sacred Right On This Earth Is Mans Right To Have The Earth To Till With His Own Hands, The Most Sacred Sacrifice The Blood That A Man Sheds For This Earth.

A Definite Factor In Getting A Lie Believed Is The Size Of The Lie. The Broad Mass Of The People, In The Simplicity Of Their Hearts, More Easily Fall Victim To A Big Lie Than To A Small One.

Everything On This Earth Can Be Made Into Something Better. Every Defeat May Be Made The Foundation Of A Future Victory. Every Lost War May Be The Cause Of A Later Resurgence. Every Visitation Of Distress Can Give A New Impetus To Human Energy. And Out Of Every Oppression Those Forces Can Develop Which Bring About A New Rebirth.

I Had So Often Sung 'deutschland U:ber Alles' And Shouted 'heil' At The Top Of My Lungs, That It Seemed To Me Almost A Belated Act Of Grace To Be Allowed To Stand As A Witness In The Divine Court Of The Eternal Judge And Proclaim The Sincerity Of This Conviction.

You Only Have To Kick In The Door And The Whole Rotten Structure Will Come Crashing Down.

We Were Not Foolish Enough To Try To Make A Currency [backed By] Gold Of Which We Had None, But For Every Mark That Was Issued We Required The Equivalent Of A Mark's Worth Of Work Done Or Goods Produced ... We Laugh At The Time Our National Financiers Held The View That The Value Of A Currency Is Regulated By The Gold And Securities Lying In The Vaults Of A State Bank.

[the Crowd] Will Finally Succeed In Remembering Only The Simplest Concepts Repeated A Thousand Times.

After 15 Years Of Work I Have Achieved, As A Common German Soldier And Merely With My Fanatical Willpower, The Unity Of The German Nation, And Have Freed It From The Death Sentence Of Versailles.

In Order To Persuade Britain To Pack Up, To Compel Her To Make Peace, It Was Essential To Rob Her Of Her Hope Of Being Able Still To Confront Us, On The Continent Itself, With An Adversary Of A Stature Equal To Our Own.

The World Is Not For Cowardly Peoples.

Today I Will Once More Be A Prophet. If The International Jewish Financiers, Inside And Outside Europe, Succeed In Plunging The Nations Once More Into A World War, Then The Result Will Not Be The Bolshevisation Of The Earth, And Thus The Victory Of Jewry, But The Annihilation Of The Jewish Race In Europe!

God Helps Only Those Who Are Prepared And Determined To Help Themselves.

The Receptivity Of The Masses Is Very Limited, Their Intelligence Is Small, But Their Power Of Forgetting Is Enormous. In Consequence Of These Facts, All Effective Propaganda Must Be Limited To A Very Few Points And Must Harp On These In Slogans Until The Last Member Of The Public Understands What You Want Him To Understand By Your Slogan.

Today In May 1938, The World Around Us Suffers From The Anxiety Which The Unemployment Of Millions Brings With It. In Germany We Begin To Be Anxious Because We Have Not Enough Workmen.

I Use Emotion For The Many And Reserve Reason For The Few.

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The Efficiency Of A Truly National Leader Consists Primarily In Preventing The Division Of The Attention Of A People, And Always In Concentrating It On A Single Enemy.

Heaven Will Smile On Us Again.

Blood Sin And Desecration Of The Race Are The Original Sin In This World And The End Of A Humanity Which Surrenders To It.

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I Am Convinced That Nothing Will Happen To Me, For I Know The Greatness Of The Task For Which Providence Has Chosen Me.

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The Great Strength Of The Totalitarian State Is That It Forces Those Who Fear It To Imitate It.

Your Birth May Be Common, But Death Must Be History.

What Good Fortune For Those In Power That People Do Not Think.

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If Freedom Is Short Of Weapons, We Must Compensate With Willpower.

A Single Blow Must Destroy The Enemy... Without Regard Of Losses... A Gigantic All-destroying Blow.

I Follow My Course With The Precision And Security Of A Sleepwalker.

We Have Now Armed To Such An Extent As The World Has Never Before Seen.

The Black-haired Jewish Youth Lies In Wait For Hours On End, Satanically Glaring At And Spying On The Unsuspicious Girl Whom He Plans To Seduce, Adulterating Her Blood And Removing Her From The Bosom Of Her Own People. The Jew Uses Every Possible Means To Undermine The Racial Foundations Of A Subjugated People.

Struggle Is The Father Of All Things, Virtue Lies In Blood, Leadership Is Primary And Decisive

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This Arch-liar Today Shows That Britain Never Was In A Position To Wage War Alone. This Gabbler, This Drunkard Churchill. And Then His Accomplice In The White House, This Mad Fool.

Our Strength Lies In Our Intensive Attacks And Our Barbarity...after All, Who Today Remembers The Genocide Of The Armenians?

All Propaganda Must Be So Popular And On Such An Intellectual Level, That Even The Most Stupid Of Those Towards Whom It Is Directed Will Understand It. Therefore, The Intellectual Level Of The Propaganda Must Be Lower The Larger The Number Of People Who Are To Be Influenced By It.

There Is A Road To Freedom. Its Milestones Are Obedience, Endeavour, Honesty, Order, Cleanliness, Sobriety, Truthfulness, Sacrifice, And Love Of The Fatherland.

Through Clever And Constant Application Of Propaganda, People Can Be Made To See Paradise As Hell, And Also The Other Way Round, To Consider The Most Wretched Sort Of Life As Paradise.

The Application Of Force Alone, Without Support Based On A Spiritual Concept, Can Never Bring About The Destruction Of An Idea Or Arrest The Propagation Of It, Unless One Is Ready And Able To Ruthlessly To Exterminate The Last Upholders Of That Idea Even To A Man, And Also Wipe Out Any Tradition Which It May Tend To Leave Behind.

The One Means That Wins The Easiest Victory Over Reason Is Terror And Force.

By The Skillful And Sustained Use Of Propaganda, One Can Make A People See Even Heaven As Hell Or An Extremely Wretched Life As Paradise.

For This, To Be Sure, From The Child's Primer Down To The Last Newspaper, Every Theater And Every Movie House, Every Advertising Pillar And Every Billboard, Must Be Pressed Into The Service Of This One Great Mission, Until The Timorous Prayer Of Our Present Parlor Patriots: 'lord, Make Us Free!' Is Transformed In The Brain Of The Smallest Boy Into The Burning Plea: 'almighty God, Bless Our Arms When The Time Comes; Be Just As Thou Hast Always Been; Judge Now Whether We Be Deserving Of Freedom; Lord, Bless Our Battle!"

The Broad Masses Of A Population Are More Amenable To The Appeal Of Rhetoric Than To Any Other Force.

If I Made Peace With Russia Today, I'd Only Attack Her Again Tomorrow. I Just Couldn't Help Myself.

The Greatness Of Christianity Did Not Lie In Attempted Negotiations For Compromise With Any Similar Philosophical Opinions In The Ancient World, But In Its Inexorable Fanaticism In Preaching And Fighting For Its Own Doctrine.

We Are All Proud That Through God's Powerful Aid, We Have Become Once More True Germans

There Is Only One Right In The World And That Right Is One's Own Strength.

I Know It Is Unpopular. I Know The Timing Is Unpopular. I Know The Whole Thing Is Unpopular. But I Believe It Is The Right Thing.

The Government Will Make Use Of These Powers Only Insofar As They Are Essential For Carrying Out Vitally Necessary Measures.... The Separate Existence Of The Federal States Will Not Be Done Away.... The Number Of Cases In Which An Internal Necessity Exists For Having Recourse To Such Law Is In Itself A Limited One.

When I Was A Worker I Busied Myself With Socialist Or, If You Like, Marxist Literature.

Propaganda Must Not Serve The Truth, Especially As It Might Bring Out Something Favorable For The Opponent.

The Personification Of The Devil As The Symbol Of All Evil Assumes The Living Shape Of The Jew.

More Than Once I Was Tormented By The Thought That If Providence Had Put Me In The Place Of The Incapable Of Criminal Incompetents Or Scoundrels In Our Propaganda Service, Our Battle With Destiny Would Have Taken A Different Turn.

Let Us Never Forget The Duty, Which We Have Taken Upon Us

The Youthful Brain Should In General Not Be Burdened With Things Ninety-five Percent Of Which It Cannot Use And Hence Forgets Again... In Many Cases, The Material To Be Learned In The Various Subjects Is So Swollen That Only A Fraction Of It Remains In The Head Of The Individual Pupil, And Only A Fraction Of This Abundance Can Find Application, While On The Other Hand It Is Not Adequate For The Man Working And Earning His Living In A Definite Field.

If Positive Christianity Means Love Of One's Neighbour, I.e. The Tending Of The Sick, The Clothing Of The Poor, The Feeding Of The Hungry, The Giving Of Drink To Those Who Are Thirsty, Then It Is We Who Are The More Positive Christians. For In These Spheres The Community Of The People Of National Socialist Germany Has Accomplished A Prodigious Work.

Remain Strong In Your Faith, As You Were In Former Years. In This Faith, In Its Close-knit Unity Our People To-day Goes Straight Forward On Its Way And No Power On Earth Will Avail To Stop It.

Of Course, The Latter Made No Secret Of His Attitude Toward The Jewish People, And When Necessary He Even Took The Whip To Drive From The Temple Of The Lord This Adversary Of All Humanity, Who Then As Always Saw In Religion Nothing But An Instrument For His Business Existence. In Return, Christ Was Nailed To The Cross, While Our Present-day Party Christians Debase Themselves To Begging For Jewish Votes At Elections And Later Try To Arrange Political Swindles With Atheistic Jewish Parties- And This Against Their Own Nation.

The Goal Of Female Education Must Invariably Be The Future Mother.

To Attain Our Aim We Should Stop At Nothing Even If We Must Join Forces With The Devil.

A Man Does Not Die For Something Which He Himself Does Not Believe In.

The Only Preventative Measure One Can Take Is To Live Irregularly.

I Am Sure That The Japanese, The Chinese And The Peoples Of Islam Will Always Be Closer To Us Than, For Example, France, In Spite Of The Fact That We Are Related By Blood (...)

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Marching Diverts Man's Thoughts. Marching Kills Thoughts. Marching Makes An End Of Individuality. Marching Is The Indispensable Magic Stroke Performed In Order To Accustom People To A Mechanical, Quasi-ritualistic Activity Until It Becomes Second Nature.

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I Must Frankly Admit That... I Should Probably Lose All Interest In Life And Would Rather Not Be A German At All. But Since, Thank The Lord, This Cannot Be Done, We Have No Need To Be Surprised That The Health, Unspoiled People Avoid 'bourgeois Mass Meetings' As The Devil Holy Water.

The Great Masses Of People Do Not Consist Of Philosophers; Precisely For The Masses, Faith Is Often The Sole Foundation Of A Moral Attitude. The Various Substitutes Have Not Proved So Successful From The Standpoint Of Results That They Could Be Regarded As A Useful Replacement For Previous Religious Creeds. But If Religious Doctrine And Faith Are Really To Embrace The Broad Masses, The Unconditional Authority Of The Content Of This Faith Is The Foundation Of All Efficacy.

As Fuehrer Of The German People And Chancellor Of The Reich, I Can Thank God At This Moment That He Has So Wonderfully Blessed Us In Our Hard Struggle For What Is Our Right, And Beg Him That We And All Other Nations May Find The Right Way, So That Not Only The German People But All Europe May Once More Be Granted The Blessing Of Peace.

No Politician Should Ever Let Himself Be Photographed In A Bathing Suit.

Historically Speaking, The Christian Religion Is Nothing But A Jewish Sect... After The Destruction Of Judaism, The Extinction Of Christian Slave Morals Must Follow Logically... Ah, The God Of The Deserts, That Crazed, Stupid, Vengeful Asiatic Despot With His Power To Make Laws!

Obstacles Do Not Exist To Be Surrendered To, But Only To Be Broken.

In The Course Of Carrying Through Our Program For Which We Have Calculated Four Years, Two And One-quarter Million Out Of Six Million Unemployed Have Already Received Employment Again Within A Period Of Eight Short Months.

It Is Not The Neutrals Or The Lukewarm Who Make History.

Our Thoughts And Actions Must In No Way Be Determined By The Approval Or Disapproval Of Our Time, But By The Binding Obligation To A Truth Which We Have Recognized.

In Nearly All The Matters In Which The Pan-german Movement Was Wanting, The Attitude Of The Christian Social Party Was Correct And Well-planned.

May The Time Not Be Far Off When All Other European Nations Will Come To The Realisation That The Primary Necessity Is Putting An End To The Quarrels And Strife Of Centuries And Of Building Up Of A Finer Community Of All Peoples Is: The Recognition Of A Higher Common Duty Arising Out Of Common Rights?

One Should Guard Against Believing The Great Masses To Be More Stupid Than They Actually Are.

It Is A Mistake To Make Propaganda Many-sided, Like Scientific Instruction, For Instance... As Soon As You Sacrifice This Slogan And Try To Be Many-sided, The Effect Will Piddle Away, For The Crowd Can Neither Digest Nor Retain The Material Offered.

Where Napoleon Failed, I Shall Succeed, I Shall Land On The Shores Of Britain.

In The Ranks Of The Movement [national Socialist Movement], The Most Devout Protestant Could Sit Beside The Most Devout Catholic, Without Coming Into The Slightest Conflict With His Religious Convictions. The Mighty Common Struggle Which Both Carried On Against The Destroyer Of Aryan Humanity Had, On The Contrary, Taught Them Mutually To Respect And Esteem One Another.

Sparta Must Be Regarded As The First Völkisch State. The Exposure Of The Sick, Weak, Deformed Children, In Short, Their Destruction, Was More Decent And In Truth A Thousand Times More Human Than The Wretched Insanity Of Our Day Which Preserves The Most Pathological Subject.

The Folkish State Must Not Adjust Its Entire Educational Work Primarily To The Inoculation Of Mere Knowledge, But To The Breeding Of Absolutely Healthy Bodies. The Training Of Mental Abilities Is Only Secondary.

Whatever Goal, Man Has Reached Is Due To His Originality Plus His Brutality

The German People Have No Idea Of The Extent To Which They Have To Be Gulled In Order To Be Led.

If In The Past, After Every Lost War, The Unlucky Vanquished Were Divested Forever Of Their Honor And Their Equality Of Rights, The League Of Nations Would Even Now Have To Be Satisfied With A Whole Series Of Non-equal And Thus Ultimately Dishonorable And Inferior Nations.

...we Must Pray To The Almighty Not To Refuse His Blessing To This Change And Not To Abandon Our People In The Times To Come.

The Reason Why The Ancient World Was So Pure, Light And Serene Was That It Knew Nothing Of The Two Great Scourges : The Pox And Christianity.

If You Dont Like A Rule... Just Follow It.. Reach On The Top.. And Change The Rule

He Who Would Lay Hands Upon Us Will Encounter Thorns And Barbs!

The Art Of Reading And Studying Consists In Remembering The Essentials And Forgetting What Is Not Essential.

The Stronger Must Dominate And Not Blend With The Weaker, Thus Sacrificing His Own Greatness.

Wipe Out The Entire Defense Potential Remaining To The Soviets.

The National Government...will Maintain And Defend The Foundations On Which The Power Of Our Nation Rests. It Will Offer Strong Protection To Christianity As The Very Basis Of Our Collective Morality.

A Man Who Knows A Thing, Who Is Aware Of A Given Danger, And Sees The Possibility Of A Remedy With His Own Eyes, Has The Duty And Obligation, By God, Not To Work 'silently,' But To Stand Up Before The Whole Public Against The Evil And For Its Cure.

I Never Lost My Belief, In The Midst Of Setbacks Which Were Not Spared Me During My Period Of Struggle. Providence Has Had The Last Word And Brought Me Success.

Then We'll Work A Hundred Years Without Physics And Chemistry.

The Folkish-minded Man, In Particular, Has The Sacred Duty, Each In His Own Denomination, Of Making People Stop Just Talking Superficially Of God's Will, And Actually Fulfill God's Will, And Not Let God's Word Be Desecrated. For God's Will Gave Men Their Form, Their Essence And Their Abilities. Anyone Who Destroys His Work Is Declaring War On The Lord's Creation, The Divine Will.

For The Greater A Man's Works For The Future, The Less The Present Can Comprehend Them; The Harder His Fight, And The Rarer Success. If, However, Once In Centuries Success Does Come To A Man, Perhaps In His Latter Days A Faint Beam Of His Coming Glory May Shine Upon Him. To Be Sure, These Great Men Are Only The Marathon Runners Of History; The Laurel Wreath Of The Present Touches Only The Brow Of The Dying Hero.

As Soon As One Point Alone Is Removed From The Sphere Of Dogmatic Certainty, The Discussion Will Not Simply Result In A New And Better Formulation Which Will Have Greater Consistency But May Easily Lead To Endless Debates And General Confusion.

The Greater The Lie, The Greater The Chance That It Will Be Believed.

The State Must Act As The Guardian Of A Millennial Future In The Face Of Which The Wishes And The Selfishness Of The Individual Must Appear As Nothing And Submit.

I Am Convinced That 1941 Will Be The Crucial Year Of A Great New Order In Europe. The World Shall Open Up For Everyone. Privileges For Individuals, The Tyranny Of Certain Nations And Their Financial Rulers Shall Fall. And Last Of All This Year Will Help To Provide The Foundations Of A Real Understanding Among Peoples, And With It The Certainty Of Conciliation Among Nations. . . . Those Nations Who Are Still Opposed To Us Will Some Day Recognize The Greater Enemy Within. Then They Will Join Us In A Combined Front, A Front Against Jewish Exploitation And Racial Degeneration.

But If Out Of Smugness, Or Even Cowardice, This Battle Is Not Fought To Its End, Then Take A Look At The Peoples Five Hundred Years From Now. I Think You Will Find But Few Images Of God, Unless You Want To Profane The Almighty.

No More Than A Famous Master Can Be Replaced And Another Take Over The Completion Of The Half-finished Painting He Has Left Behind Can The Great Poet And Thinker, The Great Statesman And The Great Soldier, Be Replaced. For Their Activity Lies Always In The Province Of Art. It Is Not Mechanically Trained But Inborn By God's Grace.

Help Thyself, Then Thou Wilt Also Have The Help Of The Almighty.

Christianity Could Not Content Itself With Building Up Its Own Altar; It Was Absolutely Forced To Undertake The Destruction Of The Heathen Altars. Only From This Fanatical Intolerance Could Its Apodictic Faith Take Form; This Intolerance Is, In Fact, Its Absolute Presupposition.

We Stand At The End Of The Age Of Reason. A New Era Of The Magical Explanation Of The World Is Rising.

Today We Rule Germany, Tomorrow, The World.

For There Is Hardly A State Or Nation In Existence Which Has Not Once Had The Misfortune, Even If It Was In The Right A Thousand Times Over, To Be Defeated By A Stronger Opponent Or A Stronger Coalition.

As National Socialists We See Our Program In Our Flag. In The Red We See The Social Idea Of The Movement.

The Purest Idealism Is Unconsciously Equivalent To The Deepest Knowledge.

Outward Appearance

For A People, As For An Individual, It Is Tragic To Have Ambitions And To Lack Both The Means Essential To Their Fulfillment And Any Hope Of Acquiring Those Means.

The Anti-semitism Of The New Movement Was Based On Religious Ideas Instead Of Racial Knowledge.

I Believe That The Madness Of Communism Would Be The Sole Victor.

For It Was By The Will Of God That Men Were Made Of A Certain Bodily Shape, Were Given Their Natures And Their Faculties. Whoever Destroys His Work Wages War Against God's Creation And God's Will.

It Is The Last Territorial Claim Which I Have To Make In Europe, But It Is A Claim From Which I Will Not Recede And Which, God Willing, I Will Make Good.

In Freethinkers Hall, Which Before The Nazi Resurgence Was The National Headquarters Of The German Freethinkers League, The Berlin Protestant Church Authorities Have Opened A Bureau For Advice To The Public In Church Matters. Its Chief Object Is To Win Back Former Churchgoers And Assist Those Who Have Not Previously Belonged To Any Religious Congregation In Obtaining Church Membership. The German Freethinkers League, Which Was Swept Away By The National Revolution, Was The Largest Of Such Organizations In Germany. It Had About 500,000 Members.

What We Have To Fight For...is The Freedom And Independence Of The Fatherland, So That Our People May Be Enabled To Fulfill The Mission Assigned To It By The Creator.

Help Yourself, Then God Will Also Help You!

Germany Must Either Be A World Power Or There Will Be No Germany

The Greatness Of Every Mighty Organization Embodying An Idea In This World Lies In The Religious Fanaticism And Intolerance With Which, Fanatically Convinced Of Its Own Right, It Intolerantly Imposes Its Will Against All Others.

I Certainly Am Not Alone In The World With This Demand; I Am In The Best Of Company. Let It Be Said That No Self-respecting People And No Responsible Government Would Be Able To Think Or Much Less Act Differently In Such A Case. The World Has Already Seen A Great Many Wars Lost In The Past.

Our Ideology Is Intolerant...and Peremptorily Demands...the Complete Transformation Of Public Life To Its Ideas.

When You Are In The Light, Everything Follows You, But When You Enter Into The Dark, Even Your Own Shadow Doesn't Follow You.

I Saw My Enemies In Munich, And They Are Worms.

I Have Issued The Command, And I'll Have Anybody Who Utters But One Word Of Criticism Executed By A Firing Squad, That Our War Aim Does Not Consist In Reaching Certain Lines, But In The Physical Destruction Of The Enemy. Accordingly, I Have Placed My Death's-head Formation In Readiness, For The Present Only In The East, With Orders To Them To Send To Death Mercilessly And Without Compassion, Men, Women, And Children Of Polish Derivation And Language. Only Thus Shall We Gain The Living Space Which We Need. Who, After All, Speaks Today Of The Annihilation Of The Armenians?

I Have Been Europe's Last Hope. She Proved Incapable Of Refashioning Herself By Means Of Voluntary Reform. She Showed Herself Impervious To Charm And Persuasion. To Take Her I Had To Use Violence. (26th February)

The Government, Being Resolved To Undertake The Political And Moral Purification Of Our Public Life, Are Creating And Securing The Conditions Necessary For A Really Profound Revival Of Religious Life

The Jew Has Always Been A People With Definite Racial Characteristics And Never A Religion.

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I Know The Horrors Of War: No Gains Can Compensate For The Losses It Brings.

People Are More Likely To Believe A Big Lie Than A Small One.

The Demand That Defective People Be Prevented From Propagating Equally Defective Offspring Is A Demand Of The Clearest Reason And If Systematically Executed Represents The Most Humane Act Of Mankind.

While Both Denominations Maintain Missions In Asia And Africa In Order To Win New Followers For Their Doctrine- An Activity Which Can Boast But Very Modest Success Compared To The Advance Of The Mohammedan Faith In Particular- Right Here In Europe They Lose Millions And Millions Of Inward Adherents Who Either Are Alien To All Religious Life Or Simply Go Their Own Ways. The Consequences, Particularly From A Moral Point Of View, Are Not Favorable.

The National State Divides Its Inhabitants Into Three Classes: State Citizens, State Subjects, And Foreigners. It Must Be Held In Greater Honour To Be A Citizen Of This Reich Even If Only A Crossing-sweeper, Than To Be A King In A Foreign State.

Genius Is A Will-o'-the-wisp If It Lacks A Solid Foundation Of Perseverence And Fanatical Tenacity. This Is The Most Important Thing In All Of Human Life.

To Them Belong, Not Only The Truly Great Statesmen, But All Other Great Reformers As Well. Beside Frederick The Great Stands Martin Luther As Well As Richard Wagner.

The National Government Will Regard It As Its First And Foremost Duty To Revive In The Nation The Spirit Of Unity And Cooperation. It Will Preserve And Defend Those Basic Principles On Which Our Nation Has Been Built. It Regards Christianity As The Foundation Of Our National Morality, And The Family As The Basis Of National Life.

Conscience Is A Jewish Invention.

A Man Who Has No Sense Of History Is Like A Man Who Has No Ears Or No Eyes.

The Most Foolish Mistake We Could Possibly Make Would Be To Permit The Conquered Eastern Peoples To Have Arms. History Teaches That All Conquerors Who Have Allowed Their Subject Races To Carry Arms Have Prepared Their Own Downfall By Doing So.

Czechoslovakia Has Ceased To Exist.

The Fantastic Political And Economic Burdens Imposed By That Treaty Have Entirely Disillusioned The German People And Annihilated Its Belief In Justice.

Politics Is History In The Making.

To Whom Should Propaganda Be Addressed? To The Scientifically Trained Intelligentsia Or The Less Educated Masses? It Must Be Addressed Always And Exclusively To The Masses.

If, In The Course Of A Thousand Or Two Thousand Years, Science Arrives At The Necessity Of Renewing Its Points Of View, That Will Not Mean That Science Is A Liar. Science Cannot Lie, For It's Always Striving, According To The Momentary State Of Knowledge, To Deduce What Is True. When It Makes A Mistake, It Does So In Good Faith. It's Christianity That's The Liar. It's In Perpetual Conflict With Itself.

Success Is The Sole Earthly Judge Of Right And Wrong.

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The Task Of Preserving And Advancing The Highest Humanity, Given To This Earth By The Benevolence Of The Almighty, Seems A Truly High Mission.

I Believe That Providence Would Never Have Allowed Us To See The Victory Of The Movement If It Had The Intention After All To Destroy Us At The End.

The Fox Remains Always A Fox, The Goose Remains A Goose, And The Tiger Will Retain The Character Of A Tiger.

Life Is Like A Game, There Could Be Many Players. If You Don't Play With Them, They'll Play With You.

This State Of Mind, Which Subordinates The Interests Of The Ego To The Conservation Of The Community, Is Really The First Premise For Every Truly Human Culture... The Basic Attitude From Which Such Activity Arises, We Call-to Distinguish It From Egoism And Selfishness-idealism. By This We Understand Only The Individual's Capacity To Make Sacrifices For The Community, For His Fellow Men.

The Aryan Stands Firm, One With God In His Attitude To The World And Its People.

The Leader Of Genius Must Have The Ability To Make Different Opponents Appear As If They Belonged To One Category.

Demoralize The Enemy From Within By Surprise, Terror, Sabotage, Assassination. This Is The War Of The Future.

Today Christians ... Stand At The Head Of [this Country]... I Pledge That I Never Will Tie Myself To Parties Who Want To Destroy Christianity .. We Want To Fill Our Culture Again With The Christian Spirit ... We Want To Burn Out All The Recent Immoral Developments In Literature, In The Theater, And In The Press - In Short, We Want To Burn Out The Poison Of Immorality Which Has Entered Into Our Whole Life And Culture As A Result Of Liberal Excess During The Past ... (few) Years.

Life Never Forgives Weaknesses.

Whoever Wants To Understand National Socialist Germany Must Know Wagner.

Himmler Wants To Send An Expedition To Tibet To Look For Ancient Manuscripts On The Aryans. The Man Is Like A Little Schoolgirl. What Culture Is There In An Old Jug, I Ask You?

I Go The Way That Providence Dictates With The Assurance Of A Sleepwalker.

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