Your Birth May Be Common,

In This Hour I Would Ask Of The Lord God Only This: That, As In The Past, So In The Years To Come He Would Give His Blessing To Our Work And Our Action, To Our Judgement And Our Resolution, That He Will Safeguard Us From All False Pride And From All Cowardly Servility, That He May Grant To Us To Find The Straight Path Which His Providence Has Ordained For The German People, And That He May Ever Give Us The Courage To Do The Right, Never To Falter, Never To Yield Before Any Violence, Before Any Danger.

I Certainly Am Not Alone In The World With This Demand; I Am In The Best Of Company. Let It Be Said That No Self-respecting People And No Responsible Government Would Be Able To Think Or Much Less Act Differently In Such A Case. The World Has Already Seen A Great Many Wars Lost In The Past.

...the Fall Of Man In Paradise Has Always Been Followed By His Expulsion.

I Am Liberating Man From The Degrading Chimera Known As `conscience'.

I Am Quite Sure That Very Few Of The So-called Reds In Spain Were Really Communists. We Were Badly Deceived, For, Had I Known The Real State Of Affairs, I Would Never Have Allowed Our Aircraft To Bombard And Destroy A Starving Population And At The Same Time Re-establish The Spanish Clergy In All Their Horrible Privileges. (10th February 1945)