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Expansionism Quotes

If fifty thousand men were to die for the good of the State, I certainly would weep for them, but political necessity comes before everything else.

There is no man more pusillanimous than I when I am planning a campaign. I purposely exaggerate all the dangers and all the calamities that the circumstances make possible. I am in a thoroughly painful state of agitation. This does not keep me from looking quite serene in front of my entourage; I am like an unmarried girl laboring with child. Once I have made up my mind, everything is forgotten except what leads to success.

I do not apologize for the takeover of the region by the Jews from the Palestinians in the same way I don't apologize for the takeover of America by the whites from the Red Indians or the takeover of Australia from the blacks. It is natural for a superior race to dominate an inferior one.

It is part of the established technique of the "cold war" the Soviets have begun against us all, that in any country which has fallen into their power, people of character and men of heart and personality outstanding in any walk of life, from the manual worker to the university professor, shall be what is called in their savage jargon "liquidated".

Only thus shall we win the living space that we need.

How important the expansion of our people's living space (Lebensraum)...to permanently secure their food supplies.

I have assured him... that once this problem is solved... I shall take no further interest in the Czech state... We don't want any Czechs!

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

Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.

Whoever lights the torch of war in Europe can wish for nothing but chaos.