“If you win, you need not have to explain. If you lose, you should not be there to explain!”

The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.

If you want to shine like sun first you have to burn like it.

Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.

In a few days, newspapers can make a trivial incident in itself a dangerous issue that shakes the state, and it can also bring vital issues to the fore into oblivion, so that the public will soon forget them.

Be proud of your people when you don’t have to be ashamed of any of its social classes.

What luck for rulers that men do not think.

I respected my father, but I loved my mother.

Do not compare yourself to others. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.

Our strategy is to destroy the enemy from within, to conquer him through himself.

Why nationalize industry when you can nationalize the people?

I go the way that Providence dictates with the assurance of a sleepwalker.

The one means that wins the easiest victory over reason is terror and force.

Is it not a shame to leave the capabilities of a nation at the mercy of citizens who dispose of these capabilities lightly and shamelessly, as if they were playing cards.

Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace.

God’s and beasts, that is what our world is made of.

Great liars are also great magicians.