The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.

The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.

The efficiency of a truly national leader consists primarily in preventing the division of the attention of a people, and always in concentrating it on a single enemy.

The government will make use of these powers only insofar as they are essential for carrying out vitally necessary measures.... The separate existence of the federal states will not be done away.... The number of cases in which an internal necessity exists for having recourse to such law is in itself a limited one.

Germany will either be a world power or will not be at all.