I considered the attacks on London useless, and I told the Fuhrer again and again that inasmuch as I knew the English people as well as I did my own people, I could never force them to their knees by attacking London. We might be able to subdue the Dutch people by such measures but not the British.

I am what I have always been: the last Renaissance man, if I may be allowed to say so.

Every bullet fired from the barrel of a police pistol was my bullet. If you call that murder, then I am the murderer.

I joined the party because I was a revolutionary, not because of any ideological nonsense.

We have no butter... but I ask you, would you rather have butter or guns? Preparedness makes us powerful. Butter merely makes us fat.

It is silly to appeal to people's moral sense.

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?