Words of the Führer

The Führer on the struggle for the unity and freedom of the German people
I entered political life with the burning desire to destroy German party life and replace it with a German people’s community.

National Socialism is no doctrine of laziness, but rather a doctrine of struggle, no doctrine of happiness or chance, rather a doctrine of work, a doctrine of struggle, and thus a doctrine of sacrifice. We behaved that way before the war. It has been no different this year, and it will stay the same in the future.

Even if we perish, Germany must live. Even if fate defeats us individually, Germany must live. And if we must accept privation and sorrow, Germany must exist in spite of privation and sorrow.

Nothing great in this world is given to people. Everything must be fought for bitterly. The rise of a people, too, does not simply happen; it too must be fought for.

But the problem should not be merely a logical consequence of this tendency.We should not ask what we should do tomorrow or the next day, rather the leadership of the movement must look decades into the future. Immortal, ethical, imperishable ideas should also shine as brightly for people in distant centuries.

If you believe that you must be free, then recognize that nothing will give you freedom but your own sword.

My entire life to my last breath has one goal: To make Germany free, healthy, and happy once more.

The Führer on the struggle for the Reich
No power has the right or the strength to determine the path of a people that does not seek this and this only: A strong Reich, a proud people, so large and so strong that each German once again can affirm: I am a German, and I am proud to be so.

The Führer on 31.7.1937 in Breslau

Since the day I began my political life I have had but one goal: Winning back the freedom of the German nation, building the strength and power of our Reich, overcoming the domestic fragmentation of our people, removing the barriers abroad, and ensuring its economic and political independence.

The Führer’s response to Roosevelt in the Reichstag, 28 April 1939

I have once again put on that uniform that is to me the holiest and most precious. I will take it off only after victory, or I will no longer live!

As a National Socialist and German soldier, I begin this battle with a strong heart. My whole life has been nothing other than a battle for my people, for its resurrection, for Germany. This battle is an affirmation of faith in this people. I have never learned one word: Capitulation!

The Führer on 1.9.1939

We will do whatever is in our strength to resist our enemies. A spirit has arisen in this land that the world has never conquered! A faithful sense of community has seized our people! No people in the world will take from us what we gained after so long a detour of domestic strife, and that makes us so proud over against other peoples. In the age of Jewish-capitalist rule by money, status and class, the National Socialist people’s state stands as an unshakeable monument of social justice and clear reason. It will survive not only this war, but the coming millennium!

An empire will collapse. Mr. Churchill may believe it will be Germany, but I know that it will be England!

Adolf Hitler, 30.1.1942

If Providence preserves me, my pride will be to return to the great work of peace that I still intend! But because I believe that Providence wants this battle to be fought according to its mysterious will, I ask only that Providence entrust me with the burden of this struggle. I want to carry it and will not shy from any responsibility. I want to accept at any time what comes. I want to carry any responsibility, as I have carried it in the past.

Today I feel myself to be only the first musketeer of the Reich.

Adolf Hitler, 30.1.1942

What was then only a party program has today become the thesis of a new and better world in the making.

Headquarters, 24 February 1942 Adolf Hitler

Found at https://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/ah1942.htm