Goebbels Quote by Ernst Hanfstaengl

“Some gay soldiers and officers, particularly those with a college education, carried with them a mythology, developed from reading the classics and in conversations…

— Allan Bérubé

“Rising up, rising down! History shambles on! What are we left with? A few half-shattered Greek stelae; Trotsky's eyeglasses; Gandhi's native-spun cloth, Cortes' pieces…

— William T. Vollmann

“Frederick the Great's dictum that soldiers had to fear their officers more than they feared the enemy was stupid. Soldiers needed to believe they…

— Anonymous

“Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd, and bloody religion that has ever infected the world. [In a letter to Frederick the Great]”

— Voltaire

Consequently, the value and importance of the monarchic idea cannot reside in the person of the monarch himself except if Heaven decides to lay…

— Adolf Hitler

“In editing a volume of Washington 's private letters for the Long Island Historical Society, I have been much impressed by indications that this…

— Moncure D. Conway

National Socialism would have every German decide for himself on spiritual questions, just as in the days of Frederick the Great. The National Socialist…

— Rudolf Hess

“The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old…

— Frederick the Great

On the other hand, heroism is basic to the character of the Nordic peoples. This heroism of the ancient mythic period and this is…

— Alfred Rosenberg

It is certainly of great importance for a general to keep his plans secret; and Frederick the Great was right when he said that…

— Antoine-Henri Jomini

Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Philip of Spain wept as…

— Bertolt Brecht

To them belong, not only the truly great statesmen, but all other great reformers as well. Beside Frederick the Great stands Martin Luther as…

— Adolf Hitler