“I know that fewer people are won over by the written word than by the spoken word and that every great movement on this earth owes its growth to great speakers and not to great writers.”

It is better to make a mistake than to do nothing.

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.

Where the earth is, we are.

If you know the enemy and know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt; if you know Heaven and know Earth, you may make your victory complete.

The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first; Be not discouraged – keep on – there are divine things, well envelop’d; I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.

The entire Earth will be converted into a huge brain.

The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can’t supply is proof that Heaven must be our home.

I believe we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom.

A man is a great thing upon the earth and through eternity; but every jot of the greatness of man is unfolded out of woman.