Adolf Hitler Quotes

How fortunate for leaders that men do not think (also, What luck for rulers that men do not think).

I shall never come personally to terms with the Christian lie.

We need free men who feel and know that God is in themselves

In a war the last thing the English know is how to practice fair play.

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.

To fight, we must have oil for our machine.

There is something very unhealthy about Christianity.

All advertising, whether it lies in the field of business or of politics, will carry success by continuity and regular uniformity of application.

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.

Armies for the preservation of peace do not exist; they exist only for the triumphant exertion of war.

Today our achievements are so vast that the whole world has become interested in them.

Every healthy Völk sees the right to expansion of its living space as something natural.

...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 swine who stole my dog doesn't realize what he did to me!

God grant that this is the work of the Communists. You are witnessing the beginning of a great new epoch in German history. This fire is the beginning.

I am convinced that I am acting as the agent of our Almighty Creator. By fighting the Jews, I am doing the Lord's work.

[W]e will do what we like with the bourgeoisie. ... We give the orders; they do what they are told. Any resistance will be broken ruthlessly.

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.

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.

German economic salvation has been brought about solely through the efforts of the German people and the experience they have gained. Countries abroad have contributed nothing to this.

Whoever wants to understand National Socialist Germany must know Wagner.

Pressure or violence will ever move us to relinquish our honor or our equality of rights.

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.

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.

The folkish philosophy of life must succeed in bringing about that nobler age in which men no longer are concerned with breeding dogs, horses, and cats, but in elevating man himself.

Paris must either not fall into the hands of the enemy or the enemy must find it only a wasteland.

If we had these rockets in 1939, we should never have had this war.

It [the Sudetenland] is the last territorial claim that I have to make in Europe.

Sporting chivalrous contest helps knit the bonds of peace between nations. Therefore may the Olympic flame never expire.

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.

I myself was and still am a child of the people. It was not for the capitalists that I undertook this struggle; it was for the German working man that I took my stand.

I believe in Providence and I believe Providence to be just. Therefore I believe that Providence always rewards the strong, the industrious, and the upright.

In the life of nations, what in the last resort decides questions is a kind of Judgment Court of God... Always before god and the world the stronger has the right to carry through what he wills.

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.

For we love liberty just as we love peace.

All work which is necessary ennobles him who performs it. Only one thing is shameful - to contribute nothing to the community.

As National Socialists we see our program in our flag. In the red we see the social idea of the movement.

It is eastwards, only and always eastwards, that the veins of our race must expand. It is the direction which Nature herself has decreed for the expansion of the German peoples.

When Barbarossa commences, the world will hold its breath and make no comment.

Our object must be to bring our territory into harmony with the numbers of our population.

Thank God I've always avoided persecuting my enemies.

Whenever I think of this attack, my stomach turns over.

The whole world may begin to burn, but the National Socialist State and Idea will emerge from the conflagration like platinum.

He who would lay hands upon us will encounter thorns and barbs!

Great, truly world-shaking revolutions of a spiritual nature are not even conceivable and realizable except as the titanic struggles of individual formations, never as enterprises of coalitions.

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 fall of man in paradise has always been followed by his expulsion.

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 principle applies here, help yourselves and Almighty God will not deny you his assistance.

I may add that we have more than once stated our willingness to conclude nonaggression pacts with the states neighboring our own!