Hitler's strength as a leader is that he almost always works through the power of his persuasion; rarely does he command.

We all believe we have found the finest of diktat that applies our perfect future, but do we believe the world needs referees.

The dogmatist will listen to everyone's opinion, and then affirm to himself his godliness.

Hitler's strength as a leader is that he almost always works through the power of his persuasion; rarely does he command.

Normally the great men that we admire from a distance lose their magic when one knows them well. With Hitler the opposite is true.

Woe to the people that fails to honor its heroes! It will cease producing them, cease knowing them. Heroes spring from the essence of their people. A people without heroes is a people without leaders, for only a heroic leader is a true leader able to withstand the challenge of difficult times.

My coming to England in this way is, as I realize, so unusual that nobody will easily understand it. I was confronted by a very hard decision. I do not think I could have arrived at my final choice unless I had continually kept before my eyes the vision of an endless line of children's coffins with weeping mothers behind them, both English and German, and another line of coffins of mothers with mourning children.