Hermann Goring Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders...tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.”
-- Hermann GoringSource : Quoted in Gustave M. Gilbert, Nuremberg Diary (1947).
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“Education is dangerous - Every educated person is a future enemy.”
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“Whenever I hear the word culture, I reach for my revolver”
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“And another question was unfortunately not asked of Göring: 'The German people put faith in you even if they doubted Hitler because you were gentlemanly and more likable. What did you, Göring, do to justify this confidence? You have led a luxurious life and collected stolen art.”
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“Naturally, the common people don't want war ... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.”
-- Hermann GoringSource : Interview in Göring's jail cell, April 18, 1946. "Nuremberg Diary". Book by Gustave Gilbert, 1947.
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“No enemy bomber can reach the Ruhr. If one reaches the Ruhr, my name is not Goering. You may call me Meyer.”
-- Hermann GoringSource : Addressing the Luftwaffe in September 1939. "August 1939: The Last Days of Peace" by Nicholas Fleming, p. 171, 1979.
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“The Americans cannot build aeroplanes. They are very good at refrigerators and razor blades.”
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“If I didn't have a sense of humor, how could I stand this trial now?”
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“Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat.”
-- Hermann GoringSource : Radio broadcast in 1936. "The New Language of Politics: An Anecdotal Dictionary of Catchwords, Slogans, and Political Usage" by William L. Safire, p. 178, 1968.
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“The Americans are good about making fancy cars and refrigerators, but that doesn't mean they are any good at making aircraft. They are bluffing. They are excellent at bluffing.”
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“Above all, I shall see to it that the enemy will not be able to drop any bombs.”
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“The only one who really knows about the Reichstag is I, because I set it on fire!”
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“What do I care about danger? I've sent soldiers and airmen to death against the enemy - why should I be afraid?”
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“In Berlin Jews controlled almost one hundred percent of the theaters and cinemas before the rise to power.”
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“Hitler had the willpower of a demon and he needed it. If he didn't have such a strong willpower he couldn't have achieved anything. Don't forget, if Hitler had not lost the war, if he did not have to fight against the combination of big powers like England, America, and Russia - each one he could have conquered individually - these defendants and these generals would now be saying, 'Heil Hitler,' and would not be so damn critical.”
-- Hermann GoringSource : Remark on May 24, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.
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“Certainly I shall use the police, and most ruthlessly, whenever the German people are hurt. But I refuse the notion that the police are protective troops for Jewish stores. No, the police protect whoever comes into Germany legitimately, but it does not exist for the purpose of protecting Jewish money-lenders.”
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“I have to laugh when the English claim they are such a wonderful nation. Everyone knows that Englishmen are really Germans, that the English kings were German, and that in Russia the emperors were either of German origin or received their education in Germany.”
-- Hermann GoringSource : Remark on May 28, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.
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“I joined the party because I was a revolutionary, not because of any ideological nonsense.”
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“The Jew must clearly understand one thing at once, he must get out!”
-- Hermann GoringSource : Speech in Vienna after the Austrian Anschluss, 1938. Testimony in the Imperial War Museum, Folio 645, Box 156, pp. 5-6, October 20, 1945.
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“Our movement took a grip on cowardly Marxism and from it extracted the meaning of socialism. It also took from the cowardly middle-class parties their nationalism. Throwing both into the cauldron of our way of life there emerged, as clear as a crystal, the synthesis -- German National Socialism.”
-- Hermann GoringSource : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
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“My Luftwaffe is invincible... And so now we turn to England. How long will this one last - two, three weeks?”
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“God gave the savior to the German people. We have faith, deep and unshakeable faith, that he [Hitler] was sent to us by God to save Germany.”
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“I herewith commission you to carry out all preparations with regard to... a total solution of the Jewish question in those territories of Europe which are under German influence.”
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“All it is the leaders of a country who determine policy, and it is always a...”
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“We have no butter... but I ask you, would you rather have butter or guns? Preparedness makes us powerful. Butter merely makes us fat.”
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“I am what I have always been: the last Renaissance man, if I may be allowed to say so.”
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“Every bullet fired from the barrel of a police pistol was my bullet. If you call that murder, then I am the murderer.”
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“Shoot first and inquire afterwards, and if you make mistakes, I will protect you.”
-- Hermann GoringSource : xxx
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“We will go down in history either as the world's greatest statesmen or its worst villains.”
-- Hermann GoringSource : Statement in 1937. "Great Powers and Outlaw States: Unequal Sovereigns in the International Legal Order" by Gerry J. Simpson, p. 291, 2004.
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