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I Will Employ My Strength For The Welfare Of The German People, Protect The Constitution And Laws Of The German People, Conscientiously Discharge The Duties Imposed On Me, And Conduct My Affairs Of Office Impartially And With Justice To Everyone.

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Adolf Hitler

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I Will Employ My Strength For The Welfare Of The German People, Protect The Constitution And Laws Of The German People, Conscientiously Discharge The Duties Imposed On Me, And Conduct My Affairs Of Office Impartially And With Justice To Everyone.

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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.

Every New Invention Has Been A Protest Of Genius Against The Masses.

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Consequently, The Tone, Particularly That Of The Viennese Anti-semitic Press, Seemed To Me Unworthy Of The Cultural Tradition Of A Great Nation.

For The Greatest Revolutionary Changes On This Earth Would Not Have Been Thinkable If Their Motive Force, Instead Of Fanatical, Yes, Hysterical Passion, Had Been Merely The Bourgeois Virtues Of Law And Order.

The Purpose Of Propaganda Is Not To Provide Interesting Distraction For Blasé Young Gentlemen, But To Convince... The Masses. But The Masses Are Slow Moving, And They Always Require A Certain Time Before They Are Ready Even To Notice A Thing, And Only After The Simplest Ideas Are Repeated Thousands Of Times Will The Masses Finally Remember Them.

This Game Is Repeated Again And Again, And In It The Role Of The So-called 'german Princes' Is Just As Miserable As That Of The Jews Themselves. These Lords Were Really God's Punishment For Their Beloved Peoples And Find Their Parallels Only In The Various Ministers Of The Present Time.

Something Therefore Always Remains And Sticks From The Most Imprudent Of Lies, A Fact Which All Bodies And Individuals Concerned In The Art Of Lying In This World Know Only Too Well, And Therefore They Stop At Nothing To Achieve This End.

The Dogma Of Christianity Gets Worn Away Before The Advances Of Science. Religion Will Have To Make More And More Concessions. Gradually The Myths Crumble.

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.

Protestantism As Such Is A Better Defender Of The Interests Of Germanism, In So Far As This Is Grounded In Its Genesis And Later Tradition; It Fails, However, In The Moment When This Defense Of National Interests Must Take Place In A Province Which Is Either Absent From The General Line Of Its Ideological World And Traditional Development, Or Is For Some Reason Rejected.

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.

I Have Followed The Church In Giving Our Party Program The Character Of Unalterable Finality, Like The Creed. The Church Has Never Allowed The Creed To Be Interfered With. It Is Fifteen Hundred Years Since It Was Formulated, But Every Suggestion For Its Amendment, Every Logical Criticism, Or Attack On It, Has Been Rejected.

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Difference Which Exists Between The Lowest, So-called Men, And The Other Higher Races Is Greater Than Between The Lowest Men And The Highest Apes.

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)

The Sportive, Knightly Battle Awakens The Best Human Characteristics. It Doesn't Separate, But Unites The Combatants In Understanding And Respect. He Also Helps To Connect The Countries In The Spirit Of Peace. That's Why The Olympic Flame Should Never Die.

The Phrase, 'emancipation Of Women' Is Only An Invention Of The Jewish Intellect And Its Content Is Stamped With The Same Spirit. In The Really Good Periods Of German Life The German Woman Never Needed To Emancipate Herself.

May Therefore God Give Us The Strength To Continue To Do Our Duty And With This Prayer We Bow In Homage Before Our Dead Heroes, Before Those Whom They Have Left Behind In Bereavement, And Before All The Other Victims Of This War.

It Is Not The State That Orders Us; But It Is We Who Order The State!

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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.

But In The Great Hour Heaven Sent The German People A Great Man, Herr Von Cuno.

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The National Socialist Movement Has Wrought This Miracle. If Almighty God Granted Success To This Work, Then The Party Was His Instrument.

Reading Is Not An End To Itself, But A Means To An End.

Germany Is Prepared To Agree To Any Solemn Pact Of Non-aggression, Because She Does Not Think Of Attacking But Only Acquiring Security.

Thus One Of Europe's Most Serious Crises Will Be Ended, And All Of Us, Not Only In Germany But Those Far Beyond Our Frontiers, Will Then In This Year For The First Time Really Rejoice At The Christmas Festival. It Should For Us All Be A True Festival Of Peace.

The [nazi Party] Should Not Become A Constable Of Public Opinion, But Must Dominate It. It Must Not Become A Servant Of The Masses, But Their Master!

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Social Honour Recognises No Distinction Between The Employer And The Unemployed. All Of Them Work For A Common Purpose And Are Entitled To Equal Honour And Respect.

I May Add That We Have More Than Once Stated Our Willingness To Conclude Nonaggression Pacts With The States Neighboring Our Own!

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.

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It Matters Not Whether These Weapons Of Ours Are Humane: If They Gain Us Our Freedom, They Are Justified Before Our Conscience And Before Our God.

National Socialist Germany Wishes For Peace Because It Recognises The Simple Fact That No War Would Be Likely To Substantially To Ameliorate The State Of Distress In Europe. The Distress Would Probably Be Made The Greater Thereby. If Only The Leaders And Rulers Had Wanted Peace, The People Would Never Have Wished For War.

Pride In One's Own Race - And That Does Not Imply Contempt For Other Races - Is ... A Normal And Healthy Sentiment.

It May Be That Today Gold Has Become The Exclusive Ruler Of Life, But The Time Will Come When Man Will Again Bow Down Before A Higher God.

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.

I Will Not Wage War Against Women And Children! I Have Instructed My Air Force To Limit Their Attacks To Military Objectives. However, If The Enemy Should Conclude From This That He Might Get Away With Waging War In A Different Manner He Will Receive An Answer That He'll Be Knocked Out Of His Wits!

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Blood Mixture And The Result Drop In The Racial Level Is The Sole Cause Of The Dying Out Of Old Cultures; For Men Do Not Perish As A Result Of Lost Wars, But By The Loss Of That Force Of Resistance Which Is Continued Only In Pure Blood. All Who Are Not Of Good Race In This World Are Chaff.

...the Existence And Increase Of Our Race And Nation, The Sustenance Of Its Children And The Purity Of Its Blood, The Freedom And Independence Of The Fatherland, And The Nation's Ability To Fulfill The Mission Appointed To It By The Creator Of The Universe.

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The Assertion That It Is The Intention Of The German Reich To Coerce The Austrian State Is Absurd!

Who Says I Am Not Under The Special Protection Of God?

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.

I Believe Today That My Conduct Is In Accordance With The Will Of The Almighty Creator.

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Germany Suffered Most As A Consequence Of This Peace Treaty And The General Insecurity Which Was Bound To Arise From It. The Unemployment Figure Rose To A Third Of The Number Usually Employed In The Nation, Which Means, However, That By Counting The Families Of The Unemployed As Well There Were 26 Million People In Germany Out Of A Population Of 65 Millions Faced By An Absolutely Hopeless Future.

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

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The Parliamentary Principle Of Vesting Legislative Power In The Decision Of The Majority Rejects The Authority Of The Individual And Puts A Numerical Quota Of Anonymous Heads In Its Place. In Doing So It Contradicts The Aristocratic Principle, Which Is A Fundamental Law Of Nature.

If We Had These Rockets In 1939, We Should Never Have Had This War.

For The Sake Of Historical Truth I Must Verify That Only The Greeks, Of All The Adversaries Who Confronted Us, Fought With Bold Courage And Highest Disregard Of Death.

There Is, Then, No Danger In The Circumstances That Anti-semitism Will Disappear, For It Is The Jews Themselves Who Add Fuel To Its Flames And See That It Is Kept Well Stoked. Before The Opposition To It Can Disappear, The Malady Itself Must Disappear. And From That Point Of View, You Can Rely On The Jews: As Long As They Survive, Anti-semitism Will Never Fade. (13th February 1945)

In Late Marriage Alone Lies The Compulsion To Retain An Institution Which, Twist And Turn As You Like, Is And Remains A Disgrace To Humanity, An Institution Which Is Damned Ill-suited To A Being Who With His Usual Modesty Likes To Regard Himself As The 'image' Of God.

The Root Of The Whole Evil Lay, Particularly In Schonerer's Opinion, In The Fact That The Directing Body Of The Catholic Church Was Not In Germany, And That For This Very Reason Alone It Was Hostile To The Interests Of Our Nationality.

How To Achieve The Moral Breakdown Of The Enemy Before The War Has Started - That Is The Problem That Interests Me. Whoever Has Experienced War At The Front Will Want To Refrain From All Avoidable Bloodshed.

The Thinking Of The One, Therefore, Will Be Determined By Eternal Truth, The Actions Of The Other More By The Practical Reality Of The Moment. The Greatness Of The One Lies In The Absolute Abstract Soundness Of His Idea.

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.

We Stand For The Maintenance Of Private Property... We Shall Protect Free Enterprise As The Most Expedient, Or Rather The Sole Possible Economic Order.

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

I Am A German Nationalist, That Means I Am Openly Committed To My Volkstrum. All Of My Thoughts And Actions Belong To It. I Am A Socialist. I See Before Me No Class Or Rank, But Rather A Community Of People Who Are Connected By Blood, United By Language, And Subject To The Same Collective Fate.

The Man Who Contemplates The Universe With His Eyes Wide Open Is The Man With The Greatest Amount Of Natural Piety; Not In The Religious Sense, But In The Sense Of An Intimate Harmony With Things.

The Main Plank In The National Socialist Program Is To Abolish The Liberalistic Concept Of The Individual And The Marxist Concept Of Humanity And To Substitute For Them The Folk Community, Rooted In The Soil And Bound Together By The Bond Of Its Common Blood.

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

Also Noteworthy Is The Increasingly Violent Struggle Against The Dogmatic Foundations Of The Various Churches Without Which In This Human World The Practical Existence Of A Religious Faith Is Not Conceivable.

Germany Has Solemnly Recognized And Guaranteed France Her Frontiers As Determined After The Saar Plebiscite... We Thereby Finally Renounced All Claims To Alsace-lorraine, A Land For Which We Have Fought Two Great Wars.

On Positive Liberty: The Business Of The State Is To Use Its Organizing Powers For The Purpose Of Furnishing The Necessary Conditions Which Allow This People Freely To Unfold Its Creative Faculties.

The Whites Have Carried To These (colonial) People The Worst That They Could Carry: The Plagues Of The World: Materialism, Fanaticism, Alcoholism, And Syphilis. Moreover, Since What These People Possessed On Their Own Was Superior To Anything We Could Give Them, They Have Remained Themselves... The Sole Result Of The Activity Of The Colonizers Is: They Have Everywhere Aroused Hatred.

The Sacrifice Of Personal Existence Is Necessary To Secure The Preservation Of The Species.

An Evil Exists That Threatens Every Man, Woman, And Child Of This Great Nation. We Must Take Steps To Ensure Our Domestic Security And Protect Our Homeland.

When Our Party Had Only Seven Men, It Already Had Two Principles. First, It Wanted To Be A Party With A True Ideology. And Second, It Wanted To Be The One And Only Power In Germany.

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Knowledge Above The Average Can Be Crammed Into The Average Man, But It Remains Dead, And In The Last Analysis Sterile Knowledge. The Result Is A Man Who May Be A Living Dictionary But Nevertheless Falls Down Miserably In All Special Situations And Decisive Moments In Life.

The State Dominates The Nation Because It Alone Represents It.

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

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

The More Abstractly Correct And Hence Powerful This Idea Will Be, The More Impossible Remains Its Complete Fulfillment As Long As It Continues To Depend On Human Beings... If This Were Not So, The Founders Of Religion Could Not Be Counted Among The Greatest Men Of This Earth... In Its Workings, Even The Religion Of Love Is Only The Weak Reflection Of The Will Of Its Exalted Founder; Its Significance, However, Lies In The Direction Which It Attempted To Give To A Universal Human Development Of Culture, Ethics, And Morality.

If Today I Stand Here As A Revolutionary, It Is As A Revolutionary Against The Revolution.

The National Socialist Party Will Prevent In The Future, By Force If Necessary, All Meetings And Lectures Which Are Likely To Exercise A Depressing Influence On The German State.

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.

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Neutrals And Lukewarms Do Not Make History.

We Were Convinced That The People Need And Require This Faith. We Have Therefore Undertaken The Fight Against The Atheistic Movement, And That Not Merely With A Few Theoretical Declarations; We Have Stamped It Out.

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.

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The Essential Thing Is The Formation Of The Political Will Of The Nation: That Is The Starting Point For Political Action.

When Over Long Periods Of Human History I Scrutinized The Activity Of The Jewish People, Suddenly There Arose Up In Me The Fearful Question Whether Inscrutable Destiny, Perhaps For Reasons Unknown To Us Poor Mortals, Did Not, With Eternal And Immutable Resolve, Desire The Final Victory Of This Little Nation.

[propaganda] Does Not Have Multiple Shadings; It Has A Positive And A Negative; Love Or Hate, Right Or Wrong, Truth Or Lie, Never Half This Way And Half That Way.

In A War The Last Thing The English Know Is How To Practice Fair Play.

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

I Believe That Those Who Knew Me [in My Youth] Took Me For An Eccentric.

As Long As The League Of Nations Constitutes Only A Treaty Of Guarantee For The Victorious Nations, It Is By No Means Worthy Of Its Name.

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.

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

I Want Everyone To Keep The Property That He Has Acquired For Himself According To The Principle: Benefit To The Community Precedes Benefit To The Individual. But The State Should Retain Supervision And Each Property Owner Should Consider Himself Appointed By The State. It Is His Duty Not To Use His Property Against The Interests Of Others Among His Own People. This Is The Crucial Matter. The Third Reich Will Always Retain Its Right To Control The Owners Of Property.

First, Therefore, [the Jew] Goes About Making Up To The People For His Previous Sins Against Them. He Begins His Career As The 'benefactor' Of Mankind. Since His New Benevolence Has A Practical Foundation, He Cannot Very Well Adhere To The Old Biblical Recommendation, That The Left Hand Should Not Know What The Right Hand Giveth.

I'm Sure That Nero Didn't Set Fire To Rome. It Was The Christian-bolsheviks Who Did That, Just As The Commune Set Fire To Paris In 1871 And The Communists Set Fire To The Reichstag In 1932.

When Understanding Of The Universe Has Become Widespread, When The Majority Of Men Know That The Stars Are Not Sources Of Light But Worlds, Perhaps Inhabited Worlds Like Ours, Then The Christian Doctrine Will Be Convicted Of Absurdity.

If I Can Send The Flower Of The German Nation Into The Hell Of War Without The Smallest Pity For The Shedding Of Precious German Blood, Then Surely I Have The Right To Remove Millions Of An Inferior Race That Breeds Like Vermin.

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 (...)

I Believe That This Was God's Will - To Send A Boy Into The Reich, To Let Him Become Its Leader, In Order To Bring His Home Country Into The Reich. Otherwise One Must Doubt Providence.

I Am Liberating Man From The Degrading Chimera Known As `conscience'.

The Only People I Have Been Able To Use Are Those Who Fought

Not As Tyrants Have We Come, But As Liberators.

Die Breite Masse Einesvolkes?einer GroÞen Lu« Ge Leichter Zum Opfer F A« Llt Als Einer Kleinen. The Broad Mass Of A Nation?will More Easily Fall Victim To A Big Lie Than To A Small One.

When A Man Is Starving In The Streets He Is Not Thinking Of Bread And Water, But Of Caviar And Champagne!

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.

Secular Schools Can Never Be Tolerated Because Such A School Has No Religious Instruction And A General Moral Instruction Without A Religious Foundation Is Built On Air; Consequently, All Character Training And Religion Must Be Derived From Faith . . . We Need Believing People.

Unscrupulous Agitators Have Been At Work Spreading Atrocity Stories Which Can Only Be Compared With Those Lies That Were Fabricated By The Same Instigators At The Beginning Of The Great War.

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

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.

For When A People Is Not Willing Or Able To Fight For Its Existence- Providence In Its Eternal Justice Has Decreed That People's End.

Believe Me, National Socialism Would Not Be Worth Anything If It Were To Be Confined To Germany And Did Not Secure The Rule Of The Superior Race Over The Whole World For At Least One Or Two Thousand Years.

The Holocaust Is The Solution To The Jews Final Question

The First Foundation For The Creation Of Authority Is Always Provided By Popularity.

State Authority Can Never Be An End In Itself; For, If That Were So, Any Kind Of Tyranny Would Be Inviolable And Sacred. If A Government Uses The Instruments Of Power In Its Hands For The Purpose Of Leading A People To Ruin, Then Rebellion Is Not Only The Right But Also The Duty Of Every Individual Citizen.

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.

The Future Of A Movement Is Conditioned By The Fanaticism, Yes, The Intolerance, With Which Its Adherents Uphold It As The Sole Correct Movement, And Push It Past Other Formations Of A Similar Sort.

I Can Not Be Mistaken - What I Say And Do Is Historical.i Follow My Life With The Precision And Security Of A Sleep Walker

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

We Wish To Fill Our Culture Once More With The Spirit Of Christianity - But Not Only In Theory.

[this Is The] Very First Condition Which Has To Be Fulfilled In Every Kind Of Propaganda: A Systematically One-sided Attitude Towards Every Problem That Has To Be Dealt With.

As In Everything, Nature Is The Best Instructor.

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

...absolute Intolerance Also Provides Long Growth.

Even A Superficial Glance Is Sufficient To Show That All The Innumerable Forms In Which The Life-urge Of Nature Manifests Itself Are Subject To A Fundamental Law - One May Call It An Iron Law Of Nature - Which Compels The Various Species To Keep Within The Definite Limits Of Their Own Life-forms When Propagating And Multiplying Their Kind.

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.

For I Must Not Measure The Speech Of A Statesman To His People By The Impression Which It Leaves In A University Professor, But By The Effect It Exerts On The People. And This Alone Gives The Standard For The Speaker's Genius.

University Professors

As Long As Leadership From Above Was Not Lacking, The People Fulfilled Their Duty And Obligation Overwhelmingly. Whether Protestant Pastor Or Catholic Priest, Both Together And Particularly At The First Flare, There Really Existed In Both Camps But A Single Holy German Reich, For Whose Existence And Future Each Man Turned To His Own Heaven.

The Truth Is The Best Propaganda.

I'll Put An End To The Idea That A Woman's Body Belongs To Her... Nazi Ideals Demand That The Practice Of Abortion Shall Be Exterminated With A Strong Hand.

The Size Of The Lie Is A Definite Factor In Causing It To Be Believed.

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

I Was Europe's Last Chance.

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?

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

There Arc No Such Things As Desperate Situations. Only Desperate Men.

Desperate Situations

Our Strategy Is To Destroy The Enemy From Within, To Conquer Him Through Himself.

Hence Today I Believe That I Am Acting In Accordance With The Will Of The Almighty Creator: By Defending Myself Against The Jew, I Am Fighting For The Work Of The Lord.

How Fortunate For Governments That The People They Administer Don't Think.

I Am Personally Convinced Of The Great Power And Deep Significance Of Christianity, And I Won't Allow Any Other Religion To Be Promoted.

What Luck For Rulers That Men Do Not Think.

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

Our German Language Has A Word Which In A Magnificent Way Denotes Conduct Based On This Spirit: Doing One's Duty [pflichterfüllung]-which Means Serving The Community Instead Of Contenting Oneself. We Have A Word For The Basic Disposition Which Underlies Conduct Of This Kind In Contrast To Egoism And Selfishness-idealism. By 'idealism' We Mean Only The Ability Of The Individual To Sacrifice Himself For The Whole, For His Fellow Men.

We Have To Put A Stop To The Idea That It Is A Part Of Everybody's Civil Rights To Say Whatever He Pleases.

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

The Unity Of A Nation's Spirit And Will Are Worth Far More Than The Freedom Of The Spirit And Will Of An Individual; And That The Higher Interests Involved In The Life Of The Whole Must Here Set The Limits And Lay Down The Duties Of The Interests Of The Individual.

That This Is Possible May Not Be Denied In A World Where Hundreds And Hundreds Of Thousands Of People Voluntarily Submit To Celibacy, Obligated And Bound By Nothing Except The Injunction Of The Church. Should The Same Renunciation Not Be Possible If This Injunction Is Replaced By The Admonition Finally To Put An End To The Constant And Continuous Original Sin Of Racial Poisoning, And To Give The Almighty Creator Beings Such As He Himself Created?

War Is Life War Is The Origin Of All Things.

After The Usa, Germany Today Is Once More The Leading Steel Producing Country In The World.

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.

We Are A People Of Different Faiths, But We Are One. Which Faith Conquers The Other Is Not The Question; Rather, The Question Is Whether Christianity Stands Or Falls.... We Tolerate No One In Our Ranks Who Attacks The Ideas Of Christianity... In Fact Our Movement Is Christian. We Are Filled With A Desire For Catholics And Protestants To Discover One Another In The Deep Distress Of Our Own People.

The Church Has Realized That Anything And Everything Can Be Built Up On A Document Of That Sort, No Matter How Contradictory Or Irreconcilable With It. The Faithful Will Swallow It Whole, So Long As Logical Reasoning Is Never Allowed To Be Brought To Bear On It.

Logical Reasoning

Today We Rule Germany, Tomorrow, The World.

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.

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

The Work That Christ Started But Could Not Finish, I - Adolf Hitler - Will Conclude.

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