Of course people don't want war. Why should a poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best thing he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece?

If people say that here and there someone has been taken away and maltreated, I can only reply: You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs.

It wasn't that I amassed it with aims of selling it and becoming a rich man. My personality demanded that I be surrounded by the best examples of the world's art.

I would be able to defend my actions, no matter what [evidence] they had on me.

My Luftwaffe is invincible... And so now we turn to England. How long will this one last - two, three weeks?

Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat.

I live the life of the last Renaissance man.