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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.

-Adolf Hitler

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The National State Divides

Adolf Hitler

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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.

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Night Gangsters! For This Crime I Will Exact A Thousand Fold Revenge!

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

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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 [national Socialist] Party...is Convinced That Our Nation Can Achieve Permanent Health Only From Within On The Basis Of The Principle: The Common Interest Before Self-interest.

It Is Always More Difficult To Fight Successfully Against Faith Than Against Knowledge.

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The Disastrous Consequences Of Widespread European Butchery In The Future Would Be Even Worse.

The State Must Declare The Child To Be The Most Precious Treasure Of The People. As Long As The Government Is Perceived As Working For The Benefit Of The Children, The People Will Happily Endure Almost Any Curtailment Of Liberty And Almost Any Deprivation.

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.

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

Neutrals And Lukewarms Do Not Make History.

Worst Of All, However, Is The Devastation Wrought By The Misuse Of Religious Conviction For Political Ends. In Truth, We Cannot Sharply Enough Attack Those Wretched Crooks Who Would Like To Make Religion An Implement To Perform Political Or Rather Business Services For Them.

In Relation To The Political Decontamination Of Our Public Life, The Government Will Embark Upon A Systematic Campaign To Restore The Nation's Moral And Material Health. The Whole Educational System, Theater, Film, Literature, The Press And Broadcasting - All These Will Be Used As A Means To This End.

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The Task Of Propaganda Lies Not In A Scientific Training Of The Individual, But Rather In Directing The Masses Toward Certain Facts, Events, Necessities, Etc., The Purpose Being To Move Their Importance Into The Masses' Field Of Vision.

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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.

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Never In These Long Years Have We Offered Any Other Prayer But This: Lord, Grant To Our People Peace At Home, And Grant And Preserve To Them Peace From The Foreign Foe!

Life Does Not Forgive Weakness.

Thus, Protestantism Will Always Stand Up For The Advancement Of All Germans As Such, As Long As Matters Of Inner Purity Or National Deepening As Well As German Freedom Are Involved, Since All These Things Have A Firm Foundation In Its Own Being; But It Combats With The Greatest Hostility Any Attempt To Rescue The Nation From The Embrace Of Its Most Mortal Enemy, Since Its Attitude Toward The Jews Just Happens To Be More Or Less Dogmatically Established.

Help Yourself, Then God Will Also Help You!

I Demand That Every Storm Troop Leader, Just As Every Political Leader, Should Be Conscious Of The Fact That His Behavior And Conduct Must Be Exemplary. . . . I Wish Every Mother To Give Her Son To The Party Without Fearing That He May Be Ruined Morally. . . . Storm Troop Leaders Who Behave Unworthily In Public Are To Be Mercilessly Removed.

We Have Made It Possible, Without Gold And Without Foreign Exchange, To Maintain The Value Of The German Mark. Behind The German Mark Stands The German Capacity For Work, While Some Foreign Countries, Suffocated By Gold, Have Been Compelled To Devalue Their Currencies.

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

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.

Paris Must Either Not Fall Into The Hands Of The Enemy Or The Enemy Must Find It Only A Wasteland.

I Know That One Is Able To Win People Far More By The Spoken That By The Written Word, And That Every Great Movement On This Globe Owes Its Rise To The Great Speakers And Not To The Great Writers.

German Equality Of Rights Is The Prerequisite For Any Participation On Germany's Part In International Conventions And Agreements.

Mankind Has Grown Strong In Eternal Struggles And It Will Only Perish Through Eternal Peace.

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

The State Dominates The Nation Because It Alone Represents It.

National Socialism Will Use Its Own Revolution For Establishing Of A New World Order.

World Government

I Soon Realized That The Correct Use Of Propaganda Is A True Art Which Has Remained Practically Unknown To The Bourgeois Parties. Only The Christian- Social Movement, Especially In Lueger's Time Achieved A Certain Virtuosity On This Instrument, To Which It Owed Many Of Its Success.

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.

For We Love Liberty Just As We Love Peace.

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.

Strength Lies Not In Defence But In Attack

...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 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.

When There Is Change, It Must Not Alter The Content Of What Propaganda Is Driving At, But In The End Must Always Say The Same Thing. For Instance, A Slogan Must Be Presented From Different Angles, But The End Of All Remarks Must Always And Immutably Be The Slogan Itself. Only In This Way Can The Propaganda Have A Unified And Complete Effect.

Humanitarianism Is The Expression Of Stupidity And Cowardice.

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

I Desire A Violent, Domineering, Fearless, And Ferocious Upcoming Generation. It Must Be Able To Bear Pain. It Must Show No Signs Whatsoever Of Weakness Or Tenderness. The Free And Magnificent Predator Must Once Again Glint From Their Eyes.

The National Socialist Movement, Which Aims At Establishing The National Socialist People's State, Must Always Bear Steadfastly In Mind The Principle That Every Future Institution Under That State Must Be Rooted In The Movement Itself.

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