Democratic regimes may be defined as those in which, every now and then, the people are given the illusion of being sovereign, while the true sovereignty in actual fact resides in other forces which are sometimes irresponsible and secret.

Better to live a day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep

It is my conviction that in time of war, when the cannon speaks with its powerful voice, the less we speak the better.

We have buried the putrid corpse of liberty...

You know what I think about violence. For me it is profoundly moral -more moral than compromises and transactions.

War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.

I have been a racist since 1921. I don't know how they can think I'm imitating Hitler.