Struggle is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle.

I begin with the young. We older ones are used up but my magnificent youngsters! Are there finer ones anywhere in the world? Look at all these men and boys! What material! With you and I, we can make a new world.

The receptivity of the masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous.

Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries.

But the most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly and with unflagging attention. It must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over. Here, as so often in this world, persistence is the first and most important requirement for success.

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.