In defeat, unbeatable; in victor, unbearable

Everyone threw the blame on me ... they nearly always do. I suppose ... they think I shall be able to bear it best.

You see these dictators up on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. They're afraid of words and thought. ... They make frantic efforts to bar our thoughts and words. ... A state of society where men may not speak their mind - where children denounce their parents to the police - where a businessman or small shopkeeper ruins his competitor by telling tales about his private opinion. Such a state of society cannot long endure if it is continually in contact with the healthy outside world.

I have found in my experience of war, that plans are useless, but planning is invaluable.

A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life.

All was there-the programme of German resurrection, the technique of party propaganda; the plan for combating Marxism; the concept of a National-Socialist State; the rightful position of Germany at the summit ofthe world. Here was the new Koran of faith and war: turgid, verbose, shapeless, but pregnant with its message.

There is a treasure in the heart of every man if you can only find it