First, I was Bavarian State Minister of Justice, and after the ministries of justice in the various states were dissolved I became Reich Minister without portfolio.

It was my dream, and probably the dream of every one of us, to bring about a revision of the Versailles Treaty by peaceful means, which was provided for in that very treaty.

On 24 August 1939, as an officer in the reserve, I had to join my regiment in Potsdam.

I ask nothing of the Jews except that they should disappear.

I did not care for Wagner. My tastes are more classical. Der Fuhrer had no musical taste and liked Wagner because of the bombastic Teutonic glories.

In 1930 I became a member of the Reichstag.

A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased

Concentration camps were entirely a matter for the police and had nothing to do with the administration.

Even in art, there is no light without shadows, and no shadows are cast without some light. Even the shadow of Adolf Hitler is accompanied by some light.

Hitler is lonely. So is God. Hitler is like God.

I am thankful for the kind treatment during my captivity and I ask God to accept me with mercy.

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

If you leave this world without solving the problems for which you were born, then you are a failure.

One who is thankful for a slice of bread is more blessedthan one who is ungrateful for a loaf.

As important as increase is, it is not an end in itself

Form ever follows function.

Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.

Man is very well defended against himself... The actual fortress is inaccessible, even invisible to him, unless his friends and enemies play the traitor and conduct him in by a secret path.

I have a large number of cassettes, but I look at them mainly for reference purposes.

The Jew is contrary to our being. ... He desecrated our people, spit on our ideals, paralyzed the strength of the nation, made our customs rotten, and polluted the morale.

And wrinkles, the damned democrats, won't flatter.