Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.

It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.

Speeches made to the people are essential to the arousing of enthusiasm for a war.

There is a violence that liberates, and a violence that enslaves; there is a violence that is moral and a violence that is immoral.

On the morrow of each conflict I gave the categorical order to confiscate the largest possible number of weapons of every sort and kind.

The State, in fact, as the universal ethical will, is the creator of right.

Three cheers for war, noble and beautiful above all.