The troops are therefore empowered and are in duty bound in this war to use without mitigation even against women and children any means that will lead to success.

I believe German soldiers are good and decent, and if they did anything wrong it was because of military necessity.

If I had known it I would have told my son, I'd rather shoot you than let you join the SS. But I didn't know.

This war no longer has anything to do with knightly conduct or with the agreements of the Geneva Convention.

It isn't right to be obedient only when things go well; it is much harder to be a good, obedient soldier when things go badly and times are hard. Obedience and faith at such time is a virtue.

Death by hanging. That, at least, I thought I would be spared.

I call on God Almighty to have mercy on the German people. More than two million German soldiers went to their death for the fatherland before me. I follow now my sons - all for Germany.

I am a soldier and I worked for the kaiser, under Ebert, Hindenburg, and Hitler, all the same way, for the past 44 years.

No matter what Hitler said, he spoke with a fine feeling for the particular circle which he addressed. ... He was a great psychologist.

A field marshal who issued orders to the armed forces but had no idea of the results they would have in practice.

Hitler gave us orders - and we believed in him. Then he commits suicide and leaves us to bear the guilt. He should have remained alive to bear his share.

Take care of your back ahead of anyone, dear friends.commendation and stabbing, Both get on this only.

People don't define you by what you frequently tell them, but by what you consistently show them.

Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there.

Canada, more than any nation, will be affected by rising sea levels from global warming.

I am really a very shy person. If I appear, it is because of the music, not because I want to be seen.

If your intent is that athletics and sports are tools or devices to reach higher levels of mind, then your workout sessions become meditation.

Ministry in no way is a privilege...it is the core of the Christian life. No Christian is a Christian without being a minister.

Somewhere along the line, I conditioned myself to be a quick thinker. I take a step back and try to assess the situation, then make the best decision possible at the moment.

I don't have specific television ambitions in the sense that I remain fundamentally and academic, and so, my innermost ambitions are what's the next discovery I can make; that's in my direct center.

Yeah, I think it's like any God-given gift. You writers have the gift of perception. If you don't use it, you're going to lose it. And it's the same thing with you [Lorraine], it's God-given.