source: - Radio broadcast in 1936. "The New Language of Politics: An Anecdotal Dictionary of Catchwords, Slogans, and Political Usage" by William L. Safire, p. 178, 1968.

Topics: Powerful, Gun, Fats, Goering, Artillery

The Americans are good about making fancy cars and refrigerators, but that doesn't mean they are any good at making aircraft. They are bluffing. They are excellent at bluffing.

Topics: Mean, Car, Investing, Fancy Cars

Above all, I shall see to it that the enemy will not be able to drop any bombs.

Topics: Enemy, Bombs, Able, Airpower

The only one who really knows about the Reichstag is I, because I set it on fire!

Topics: Fire, Goering

What do I care about danger? I've sent soldiers and airmen to death against the enemy - why should I be afraid?

Topics: Soldier, Enemy, Care, Airmen

In Berlin Jews controlled almost one hundred percent of the theaters and cinemas before the rise to power.

Topics: Cinema, Berlin, Hundred, Goering, Rise To Power

Hitler had the willpower of a demon and he needed it. If he didn't have such a strong willpower he couldn't have achieved anything. Don't forget, if Hitler had not lost the war, if he did not have to fight against the combination of big powers like England, America, and Russia - each one he could have conquered individually - these defendants and these generals would now be saying, 'Heil Hitler,' and would not be so damn critical.

source: - Remark on May 24, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

Topics: Strong, War, Fighting, Goering

Certainly I shall use the police, and most ruthlessly, whenever the German people are hurt. But I refuse the notion that the police are protective troops for Jewish stores. No, the police protect whoever comes into Germany legitimately, but it does not exist for the purpose of protecting Jewish money-lenders.

Topics: Hurt, People, Police, Money Lenders, Goering

I have to laugh when the English claim they are such a wonderful nation. Everyone knows that Englishmen are really Germans, that the English kings were German, and that in Russia the emperors were either of German origin or received their education in Germany.

source: - Remark on May 28, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

Topics: Kings, Russia, Laughing, Goering

I will decide who is a Jew!

Topics: Jew

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

Topics: Party, Nazism, Revolutionary

The Jew must clearly understand one thing at once, he must get out!

source: - Speech in Vienna after the Austrian Anschluss, 1938. Testimony in the Imperial War Museum, Folio 645, Box 156, pp. 5-6, October 20, 1945.

Topics: Jew, Goering

Our movement took a grip on cowardly Marxism and from it extracted the meaning of socialism. It also took from the cowardly middle-class parties their nationalism. Throwing both into the cauldron of our way of life there emerged, as clear as a crystal, the synthesis -- German National Socialism.

source: - "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Party, Class, Movement, Marxism, Cauldrons

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

Topics: Two, Long, Three

God gave the savior to the German people. We have faith, deep and unshakeable faith, that he [Hitler] was sent to us by God to save Germany.

Topics: Stupid, People, Scary, Henchmen

I herewith commission you to carry out all preparations with regard to... a total solution of the Jewish question in those territories of Europe which are under German influence.

Topics: Europe, Preparation, Territory, Goering

All it is the leaders of a country who determine policy, and it is always a...

Topics: Country, Leader, Policy

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

Topics: Powerful, Gun, Nazism, Preparedness, Goering

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

Topics: Men, Renaissance, May, Renaissance Man

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

Topics: Police, Bullets, Nazism

Shoot first and inquire afterwards, and if you make mistakes, I will protect you.

source: - xxx

Topics: Mistake, Making Mistakes, Firsts, Goering, Protect You

We will go down in history either as the world's greatest statesmen or its worst villains.

source: - Statement in 1937. "Great Powers and Outlaw States: Unequal Sovereigns in the International Legal Order" by Gerry J. Simpson, p. 291, 2004.

Topics: World, Villain, Worst, Goering

My measures will not be crippled by any bureaucracy. Here I don't have to worry about Justice; my mission is only to destroy and to exterminate; nothing more.

source: - Speech in Frankfurt on March 03, 1933. "Gestapo: Instrument of Tyranny" by Edward Crankshaw, p. 48, 1956.

Topics: Justice, Worry, Missions, Goering, Crippled

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?

Topics: War, Agriculture, People, One Piece, War Propaganda

The people were merely to acknowledge the authority of the Fuehrer, or, let us say, to declare themselves in agreement with the Fuehrer. If they gave the Fuehrer their confidence then it was their concern to exercise the other functions. Thus, not the individual persons were to be selected according to the will of the people, but solely the leadership itself.

Topics: Exercise, Agreement, People, Goering

I think that women are wonderful but I've never met one yet who didn't show more feeling than logic.

source: - Remark on May 27, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

Topics: Thinking, Feelings, Logic, Goering

I especially denounce the terrible mass murders, which I cannot understand ... I never ordered any killing or tortures where I had the power to prevent such actions!

Topics: Action, Murder, Killing, Goering

Der Sieger wird immer der Richter und der Besiegte stets der Angeklagte sein. The victor will always be the judge, and the vanquished the accused.

source: - "Nuremberg Diary". Book by Gustave Gilbert, 1995 edition, p. 4, 1947.

Topics: Judging, Accused

After the United States gobbled up California and half of Mexico, and we were stripped down to nothing, territorial expansion suddenly becomes a crime. It's been going on for centuries, and it will still go on.

source: - At lunch during the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal, December 11, 1945. "Nuremberg Diary" by Gustave Gilbert, p. 66, 1947.

Topics: California, Expansion, United States, Goering

I know two types of law because I know two types of men, those who are with us and those who are against us.

Topics: Men, Law, Two

But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders.

Topics: Country, Simple, Voice

To me there are two Hitlers: one who existed until the end of the French war; the other begins with the Russian campaign. In the beginning he was genial and pleasant. He would have extraordinary willpower and unheard-of influence on people. The important thing to remember is that the first Hitler, the man who I knew until the end of the French war, had much charm and goodwill. He was always frank. The second Hitler, who existed from the beginning of the Russian campaign until his suicide, was always suspicious, easily upset, and tense. He was distrustful to an extreme degree.

source: - Remark on May 24, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

Topics: Suicide, War, Men, Goering

Hitler used to come to my house once in a while for a cup of coffee, and because I led a normal life, he would leave at about 9 p.m. ... However, Hitler used to spend practically all of his nights, sometimes until four a.m., with Goebbels. ... God knows what evil influence Goebbels had on him during those long visits.

Topics: Coffee, Night, Long, Goebbels

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.

Topics: Taken, Eggs, People, Breaking Eggs

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

Topics: Silly, People, Goering

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.

Topics: People, Useless, Might

In Hitler the rare union has taken place between the most acute logical thinker and truly profound philosopher, and the iron man of action...I follow no leadership but that of Adolf Hitler and of God.

Topics: Taken, Men, Iron, Iron Man

After a certain period of time, when I had acquired more insight into the Fuehrer's personality, I gave him my hand and said: "I unite my fate with yours for better or for worse: I dedicate myself to you in good times and in bad, even unto death." I really meant it-and still do.

Topics: Fate, Hands, Personality

There is hardly any politically minded man who acknowledges and agrees with every point of the program of a political party.

Topics: Party, Men, Political

Naturally the common people don't want war. . . but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along. . .

Topics: Country, War, Simple, Media Manipulation, Media Propaganda

I would have let you shoot me without further ado! But it is not possible to hang the German Reichsmarschall! I cannot permit this. ... I have no moral obligation to submit to the justice of my enemies. I have therefore chosen the manner of death of the great Hannibal.

Topics: Justice, Enemy, Moral

The political structure in different countries has different origins, different developments. Something which suits one country extremely well would perhaps fail completely in another. Germany, through the long centuries of monarchy, has always had a leadership principle. ... The position of the Catholic Church rests now, as before, on the clear leadership principle of its hierarchy. And I think I can also say that of Russia, too.

Topics: Country, Thinking, Russia

It's east to start a war in any country

Topics: Country, War, East

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.

Topics: Art, Men, Personality

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

Topics: Would Be, Matter, Able

I live the life of the last Renaissance man.

Topics: Live Life, Men, Renaissance, Renaissance Man

In the beginning [Hitler] was genial and pleasant. He would have extraordinary willpower and unheard-of influence on people.

Topics: People, Goering, Willpower, Unheard

Why, of course, the people don't want war.

source: - Interview in Göring's jail cell, April 18, 1946. "Nuremberg Diary". Book by Gustave Gilbert, 1947.

Topics: War, Communist Leaders, Political Will, War Of 1812, War Propaganda

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