The devoted onset of the Russian armies which saved Paris in 1914; the mastered agony of the munitionless retreat....has [Nicholas II] no share in these?

The battle beginning today will decide the fate of the German nation for the next thousand years.

I am now fifty. I would rather have the war now than when I am fifty-five or sixty.

We shall only talk of peace when we have won the war. The Jewish capitalist world will not survive the twentieth century.

It is the last territorial claim which I have to make in Europe, but it is the claim from which I will not recede and which, God-willing, I will make good.

I ought to have seized the initiative in 1938 instead of allowing myself to be forced into war in 1939; for war was, in any case, unavoidable. However, you can hardly blame me if the British and the French accepted at Munich every demand I made of them.