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We National Socialists Must Hold Unflinchingly To Our Aim In Foreign Policy, Namely To Secure For The German People The Land And Soil To Which They Are Entitles On This Earth. And This Action Is The Only One Which, Before God And Or German Posterity, Would Make Any Sacrifice Of Blood Seem Justified: Before God, Since We Have Been Put On This Earth With The Mission Of Eternal Struggle For Our Daily Bread.
-Adolf Hitler
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We National Socialists Must

Adolf Hitler
We National Socialists Must Hold Unflinchingly To Our Aim In Foreign Policy, Namely To Secure For The German People The Land And Soil To Which They Are Entitles On This Earth. And This Action Is The Only One Which, Before God And Or German Posterity, Would Make Any Sacrifice Of Blood Seem Justified: Before God, Since We Have Been Put On This Earth With The Mission Of Eternal Struggle For Our Daily Bread.
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Not As Tyrants Have We Come, But As Liberators.
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It Must Be Thoroughly Understood That The Lost Land Will Never Be Won Back By Solemn Appeals To The God, Nor By Hopes In Any League Of Nations, But Only By The Force Of Arms.
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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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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
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The State Is A Means To An End. Its End Lies In The Preservation And Advancement Of A Community Of Physically And Psychically Homogenous Creatures.
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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.
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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.
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No Politician Should Ever Let Himself Be Photographed In A Bathing Suit.
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Once Again The Songs Of The Fatherland Roared To The Heavens Along The Endless Marching Columns, And For The Last Time The Lord's Grace Smiled On His Ungrateful Children.
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Christianity [is] A Rebellion Against Natural Law, A Protest Against Nature.
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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.
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By Rejecting The Authority Of The Individual And Replacing It By The Numbers Of Some Momentary Mob, The Parliamentary Principle Of Majority Rule Sins Against The Basic Aristocratic Principle Of Nature.
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It Would Have Been More To The Point, More Honest And More Christian, In Past Decades Not To Support Those Who Intentionally Destroyed Healthy Life Than To Rebel Against Those Who Have No Other Wish Than To Avoid Disease. Moreover, A Policy Of Laissez Faire In This Sphere Is Not Only Cruelty To The Individual Guiltless Victims But Also To The Nation As A Whole... If The Churches Were To Declare Themselves Ready To Take Over The Treatment And Care Of Those Suffering From Hereditary Diseases, We Should Be Quite Ready To Refrain From Sterilizing Them.
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...a Man Does Not Die For Business, But For Ideals.
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[it Is] Useful To Know The Laws Of Nature - For That Enables Us To Obey Them. To Act Otherwise Would Be To Rise In Revolt Against Heaven.
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It Is Not Truth That Matters, But Victory.
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Fighting
Russia
The German People In Its Whole Character Is Not Warlike, But Rather Soldierly, That Is, While They Do Not Want War, They Are Not Frightened By The Thoughts Of It.
War
Character
People
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.
Religious
Powerful
Lying
Man Has Become Great Through Struggle
Military
Struggle
Men
There Could Be No Issue Between The Church And The State. The Church, As Such, Has Nothing To Do With Political Affairs. On The Other Hand, The State Has Nothing To Do With The Faith Or Inner Organization Of The Church
Military
Hands
Organization
Czechoslovakia Provided Soviet Russia With Landing Fields For Aircraft, Thereby Increasing The Threat Against Germany.
Russia
Germany
Fields
The Wage Of A People Has Meaning Only When It Arises From Production. Every Increase In Production Should Benefit The Whole People And Raise The People's Standards Of Living.
People
Benefits
Increase
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.
Christian
Stars
Knowledge
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.
Sacrifice
Hands
Careers
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.
Eye
Men
Evil
Defend Paris To The Last, Destroy All Bridges Over The Seine And Devastate The City.
War
Bridges
Cities
If We Pursue This Way, If We Are Decent, Industrious, And Honest, If We So Loyally And Truly Fulfill Our Duty, Then It Is My Conviction That In The Future As In The Past The Lord God Will Always Help Us. In The Long Run He Never Leaves Decent Folk In The Lurch. Often He May Test Them, He May Send Trials Upon Them, But In The Long Run He Always Lets His Sun Shine Upon Them Once More And At The End He Gives Them His Blessing.
Running
Past
Blessing
To Fight, We Must Have Oil For Our Machine.
Fighting
Oil
Machines
In This World Him Who Does Not Abandon Himself The Almighty Will Not Desert. Him Who Helps Himself Will The Almighty Always Also Help; He Will Show Him The Way By Which He Can Gain His Rights, His Freedom, And Therefore His Future.
Rights
Atheism
Doe
Christianity Is A Rebellion Against Natural Law, A Protest Against Nature. Taken To Its Logical Extreme, Christianity Would Mean The Systematic Cultivation Of The Human Failure.
Taken
Mean
Law
Germany Is Prepared To Agree To Any Solemn Pact Of Non-aggression, Because She Does Not Think Of Attacking But Only Acquiring Security.
Military
Thinking
Doe
If You Wish The Sympathy Of The Broad Masses, You Must Tell Them The Crudest And Most Stupid Things.
Sympathy
Stupid
Wish
The Women Has Her Own Battlefield With Every Child She Brings Into The World She Fights A Battle For The Nation
Children
Fighting
Battle
Benefit To The Community Precedes Benefit To The Individual.
Philosophy
Community
Political
Today We Rule Germany, Tomorrow, The World.
War
World
Today
The Majority Can Never Replace The Man
Military
Men
Majority
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!
Military
Party
Democracy
The Only Preventative Measure One Can Take Is To Live Irregularly.
Mein Kampf
Help Thyself, Then Thou Wilt Also Have The Help Of The Almighty.
Helping
Almighty
Thyself
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.
Military
War
Enemy
Struggle Is The Father Of All Things, Virtue Lies In Blood, Leadership Is Primary And Decisive
Father
Military
Lying
The World Will Not Help, The People Must Help Themselves. Its Own Strength Is The Source Of Life. That Strength The Almighty Has Given Us To Use; That In It And Through It, We May Wage The Battle Of Our Life The Others In The Past Years Have Not Had The Blessing Of The Almighty - Of Him Who In The Last Resort, Whatever Man May Do, Holds In His Hands The Final Decision. Lord God, Let Us Never Hesitate Or Play The Coward.
Military
Men
Blessing
Just As A Man's Denominational Orientation Is The Result Of Upbringing, And Only The Religious Need As Such Slumbers In His Soul, The Political Opinion Of The Masses Represents Nothing But The Final Result Of An Incredibly Tenacious And Thorough Manipulation Of Their Mind And Soul.
Religious
Men
Political Opinions
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.
Spiritual
Struggle
People
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.
Mean
Fate
Class
Whoever Lights The Torch Of War In Europe Can Wish For Nothing But Chaos. We, However, Live In The Firm Conviction Our Times Will See Not The Decline But The Renaissance Of The West. It Is Our Proud Hope And Our Unshakable Belief Germany Can Make An Imperishable Contribution To This Great Work.
War
Europe
Light
The Day Of Individual Happiness Has Passed.
Individual Happiness
Individuality
Individual
The National Socialist State Refuses To Admit Female Labour In Factories Merely Because Such Labour Is Cheap. There Is, Of Course, A Certain Amount Of Industrial Work Which Can Only Be Performed By Women, But An Essential Condition Is That This Sort Of Work Should Not Be Injurious To Health.
Essentials
Female
Factories
The More The Linguistic Babel Corroded And Disorganized Parliament, The Closer Drew The Inevitable Hour Of The Disintegration Of This Babylonian Empire, And With It The Hour Of Freedom For My German-austrian People.
People
Empires
Hours
Kill, Destroy, Sack, Tell Lie; How Much You Want After Victory Nobody Asks Why?
Lying
Victory
Want
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.
Believe
Fighting
Evil
If Only One Country, For Whatever Reason, Tolerates A Jewish Family In It, That Family Will Become The Germ Center For Fresh Sedition. If One Little Jewish Boy Survives Without Any Jewish Education, With No Synagogue And No Hebrew School, It [judaism] Is In His Soul. Even If There Had Never Been A Synagogue Or A Jewish School Or An Old Testament, The Jewish Spirit Would Still Exist And Exert Its Influence. It Has Been There From The Beginning And There Is No Jew, Not A Single One, Who Does Not Personify It.
Country
School
Boys
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.
Religious
Struggle
Church
The Internal And International Criminal Gang Will Either Be Forced To Work Or Simply Exterminated.
Criminals
Gang
Internals
The Purest Idealism Is Unconsciously Equivalent To The Deepest Knowledge.
Outward Appearance
Idealism
Due To His Own Original Special Nature, The Jew Cannot Possess A Religious Institution, If For No Other Reason Because He Lacks Idealism In Any Form, And Hence Belief In A Hereafter Is Absolutely Foreign To Him. And A Religion In The Aryan Sense Cannot Be Imagined Which Lacks The Conviction Of Survival After Death In Some Form. Indeed, The Talmud Is Not A Book To Prepare A Man For The Hereafter, But Only For A Practical And Profitable Life In This World.
Religious
Book
Men
Any Violence Which Does Not Spring From A Spiritual Base, Will Be Wavering And Uncertain. It Lacks The Stability Which Can Only Rest In A Fanatical Outlook.
Spiritual
Religious
Spring
If Dr. Karl Lueger Had Lived In Germany, He Would Have Been Ranked Among The Great Minds Of Our People.
Religious
People
Mind
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.
Men
Race
Differences
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.
Hero
Fighting
Men
Heaven Will Smile On Us Again.
Heaven
A Man Does Not Die For Something Which He Himself Does Not Believe In.
Believe
Men
Doe
There Are Certain Truths Which Stand Out So Openly On The Roadsides Of Life, As It Were, That Every Passer-by May See Them. Yet, Because Of Their Obviousness, The General Run Of People Disregard Such Truths Or At Least They Do Not Make Them The Object Of Any Concious Knowledge. People Are So Bliend To Some Of The Simplest Facts In Everyday Life That They Are Highly Surprised When Somebody Calls Attention To What Everybody Ought To Know.
Running
People
Everyday
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.
War
Past
Thinking
Our Strength Lies In Our Intensive Attacks And Our Barbarity...after All, Who Today Remembers The Genocide Of The Armenians?
Lying
Today
Remember
History Is As Old As My Grandfather
Grandfather
My Grandfather
The Fact That The Catholic Church Has Come To An Agreement With Fascist Italy ... Proves Beyond Doubt That The Fascist World Of Ideas Is Closer To Christianity Than Those Of Jewish Liberalism Or Even Atheistic Marxism.
Agreement
Ideas
Catholic
If, On Our Own Account, We Do Not Intend To Wage War, We Are Much Less Willing To Do So For Interests Which Do Not Concern Germany And Are Alien To It.
War
Germany
Aliens
...absolute Intolerance Also Provides Long Growth.
Long
Growth
Intolerance
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.
Religious
Struggle
Catholic
Only Force Rules. Force Is The First Law
Military
Law
Firsts
War Is Life War Is The Origin Of All Things.
War
All Things
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.
War
Land
Two
Either One Is Factually Equal, And Consequently Morally Equal As Well; On The Other Hand, If One Is Morally Equal, There Is No Reason Why One Should Contest Factual Equality Of Rights Or Simply Refuse To Grant Them.
Hands
Rights
Reason Why
The German People Are Not A Warlike Nation. It Is A Soldierly One, Which Means It Does Not Want A War, But Does Not Fear It. It Loves Peace But Also Loves Its Honor And Freedom
Military
War
Mean
Today Christians... Stand At The Head Of Germany... We Want To Fill Our Culture Again With The Christian Spirit.
Christian
Faith Religion
Germany
Whatever Goal, Man Has Reached Is Due To His Originality Plus His Brutality
Military
Men
Goal
I Was Not In Agreement With The Sharp Anti-semitic Tone, But From Time To Time I Read Arguments Which Gave Me Some Food For Thought. At All Events, These Occasions Slowly Made Me Acquainted With The Man And The Movement, Which In Those Days Guided Vienna's Destinies: Dr. Karl Lueger And The Christian Social Party.
Christian
Religious
Party
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.
War
Names
People
Propaganda Tries To Force A Doctrine On The Whole People; The [party] Organization Embraces Within Its Scope Only Those Who Do Not Threaten On Psychological Grounds To Become A Brake On The Further Dissemination Of Ideas.
Party
Organization
Ideas
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.
Atheism
Weapons
Matter
Imagine Me Going Around With A Pot Belly. It Would Mean Political Ruin.
Mean
Political
Ruins
I Use Emotion For The Many And Reserve Reason For The Few.
Mein Kampf
Use
Emotion
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.
Wish
Selfishness
Millennials
...the Fall Of Man In Paradise Has Always Been Followed By His Expulsion.
Fall
Men
Paradise
The Fact That, With Time, This League [of Nations]-which Was Presumably Designed By Its Founders To Exist For All Eternity-cannot Be Coupled With A Treaty The Short Term Of Which Is Inherent In Its Own Weaknesses And Impracticabilities, Is A Point Which Can Perhaps Be Contested By Today's Interested Parties, But Which Will One Day Be Deemed A Matter Of Course In History.
Party
League
One Day
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.
Roots
Evil
Catholic
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.
Struggle
Fighting
Law
Understanding Quotes: Their Essence and Application

Quotes, or quotations, are powerful tools in communication, encapsulating ideas, emotions, and wisdom in concise expressions. They serve various purposes across different contexts, from academic writing to everyday conversation.

1. Defining Quotes

A quote is a repetition of someone else's statement or thoughts. It can be a direct replication of words spoken or written by another individual, often used to support arguments, provide evidence, or convey profound insights.


2. The Importance of Quotes

2.1. Enhancing Credibility

Incorporating quotes from authoritative sources can bolster the credibility of your work. By referencing experts or primary sources, you demonstrate thorough research and a solid foundation for your arguments.


2.2. Providing Evidence

Quotes serve as concrete evidence to support claims. In academic and professional writing, they validate points made, offering readers a basis to trust the information presented.


2.3. Conveying Emotions and Perspectives

Quotes can encapsulate emotions and perspectives succinctly. They allow writers to express complex feelings or viewpoints through the words of others, often more eloquently than paraphrasing.


3. Types of Quotes

3.1. Direct Quotes

Direct quotes involve copying the exact words from a source, enclosed in quotation marks. They are used when the original wording is significant or particularly well-expressed.


3.2. Indirect Quotes (Paraphrasing)

Indirect quotes restate the original message in your own words. While not enclosed in quotation marks, they still require proper attribution to the original source.


3.3. Block Quotes

Block quotes are lengthy direct quotations, formatted as a separate block of text. They are typically used for quotes exceeding a certain length, varying by citation style. For instance, in APA style, quotes longer than 40 words are formatted as block quotes.



4. Proper Usage of Quotes


4.1. Contextual Relevance

Ensure that the quote you choose is relevant to the topic and adds value to your content. Avoid inserting quotes solely for decorative purposes.


4.2. Integration into Your Writing

Seamlessly integrate quotes into your writing. Introduce them appropriately and follow up with analysis or commentary to connect them to your main points.


4.3. Attribution and Citation

Always attribute quotes to their original authors and provide proper citations according to the required style guide (APA, MLA, Chicago, etc.).


5. Common Mistakes to Avoid


5.1. Overusing Quotes

Relying too heavily on quotes can overshadow your voice. Use them sparingly to support your arguments, not replace them.


5.2. Lack of Analysis

Presenting a quote without analysis or explanation can leave readers questioning its relevance. Always follow up with your interpretation or discussion.


5.3. Misquoting or Taking Out of Context

Ensure that quotes are accurate and not taken out of context, as this can mislead readers and undermine your credibility.



6. Quotes in Different Contexts


6.1. Academic Writing

In academic writing, quotes are used to support arguments, provide evidence, and engage with existing literature. Proper citation is crucial to avoid plagiarism.


6.2. Journalism

Journalists use quotes to provide firsthand accounts, add authenticity, and present multiple perspectives within a story.


6.3. Literature and Creative Writing

In literature, quotes can be used to convey character voices, themes, and stylistic elements. They enrich narratives and provide depth to storytelling.



7. Punctuation and Formatting


Understanding the correct punctuation and formatting of quotes is essential:


Quotation Marks: Always enclose direct quotes within quotation marks.


Punctuation Placement: In American English, periods and commas are placed inside quotation marks, while colons and semicolons are placed outside.


Block Quotes: For longer quotes, format them as block quotes without quotation marks, and indent the entire block.



8. Ethical Considerations


Ethical use of quotes involves accurate representation, proper attribution, and respect for intellectual property. Misuse can lead to plagiarism, which carries serious academic and professional consequences.

9. Tools for Managing Quotes


Utilize tools like citation generators and plagiarism checkers to manage quotes effectively. These tools help ensure proper formatting and originality in your writing.



Conclusion


Quotes are invaluable in enriching content, providing evidence, and conveying complex ideas succinctly. When used appropriately, they enhance the quality and credibility of your writing. Always ensure relevance, proper integration, and ethical usage to maximize their impact.


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