814 Quotes by Adolf Hitler

Not until my fourteenth or fifteenth year did I begin to come across the word 'Jew,' with any frequency, partly in connection with political discussions.... For the Jew was still characterized for me by nothing but his religion, and therefore, on grounds of human tolerance, I maintained my rejection of religious attacks in this case as in others. Consequently, the tone, particularly that of the Viennese anti-Semitic press, seemed to me unworthy of the cultural tradition of a great nation.

Great nations do not succumb through lost wars, but rather through racial decay and the destruction of their internal order.

The more the linguistic Babel corroded and disorganized parliament, the closer drew the inevitable hour of the disintegration of this Babylonian Empire, and with it the hour of freedom for my German-Austrian people.

I shall not rest until every German sees that it is a shameful thing to be a lawyer.

The peoples of Islam will always be closer to us than, for example, France. (2nd April 1945)

Only a handful of Germans in the Reich had the slightest conception of the eternal and merciless struggle for the German language, German schools, and a German way of life. Only today, when the same deplorable misery is forced on many millions of Germans from the Reich, who under foreign rule dream of their common fatherland and strive, amid their longing, at least to preserve their holy right to their mother tongue, do wider circles understand what it means to be forced to fight for one's nationality.

Blood sin and desecration of the race are the original sin in this world and the end of a humanity which surrenders to it.

It is better to make a mistake than to do nothing.

Man has become great through struggle