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For the political leader the religious doctrines and institutions of his people must always remain inviolable; or else has no right to be in politics, but should become a reformer, if he has what it takes!
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I wish to give officials greater discretion. The State's authority will be increased thereby. I wish to transform the non-political criminal police into a political instrument of the highest State authority.
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The doom of a nation can be averted only by a storm of flowing passion, but only those who are passionate themselves can arouse passion in others.
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Become strong again in spirit, strong in will, strong in endurance, strong to bear all sacrifices.
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How fortunate for governments that people do not think. There is no thinking except in giving and executing commands. If it were otherwise human society could not exist.
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The fact that the Vatican is concluding a treaty with the new Germany means the acknowledgement of the National Socialist state by the Catholic Church. This treaty shows the whole world clearly and unequivocally that the assertion that National Socialism is hostile to religion is a lie.
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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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Pacifism is simply undisguised cowardice.
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We will not capitulate - no, never! We may be destroyed, but if we are, we shall drag a world with us - a world in flames.
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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.
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Nearly all Bolshevist agitators in Germany and elsewhere were Jews.
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Today in May 1938, the world around us suffers from the anxiety which the unemployment of millions brings with it. In Germany we begin to be anxious because we have not enough workmen.
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For I must not measure the speech of a statesman to his people by the impression which it leaves in a university professor, but by the effect it exerts on the people. And this alone gives the standard for the speaker's genius.
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I'm sure that Nero didn't set fire to Rome. It was the Christian-Bolsheviks who did that, just as the Commune set fire to Paris in 1871 and the Communists set fire to the Reichstag in 1932.
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In a war the last thing the English know is how to practice fair play.
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To them belong, not only the truly great statesmen, but all other great reformers as well. Beside Frederick the Great stands Martin Luther as well as Richard Wagner.
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The broad mass of a nation will more easily fall victim to a big lie than a small one. The greater the lie, the greater chance that it will be believed. All epoch-making events have been produced not by the written, but the spoken word.
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Struggle is the father of all things, virtue lies in blood, leadership is primary and decisive.
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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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Today Christians... stand at the head of Germany... We want to fill our culture again with the Christian Spirit.
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Only in the struggle between two philosophies can the weapon of brutal force, persistently and ruthlessly applied, lead to a decision for the side it supports.
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If the lie is large enough, everyone will believe it.
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German equality of rights is the prerequisite for any participation on Germany's part in international conventions and agreements.
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Today our achievements are so vast that the whole world has become interested in them.