Adolf Hitler Quotes

To be first in the Middle East is not enough. We must raise ourselves to the level of a great world power..

Germany must either be a world power or there will be no Germany

There is not a man here [in Congress] who does not feel four hundred percent bigger in 1900—bigger intellectually, bigger, hopefully, bigger patriotically that he as a citizen of a country that has become a world power.

Germany needs a war of her own in order to feel her power; she needs a feud with Frenchdom to develop her national way of life in all its fullness. This occasion will not fail to come.

Britain has lost an empire and not yet found a role in the world.

World power is fleeting. Nations rise and fall.

Deutschland uber alles. [Germany over all.]

Deutschland, Deutschland uber alles. Germany, Germany over all.

Germany is in ferment within, and exposed from without to danger from more than one side. Deliverance from this danger can come only from the most intimate union of the German princes and people under a single leadership. I have taken this leadership upon me for the hour of peril. I have today assumed the old German colors, and placed myself under the venerable banner of the German Empire. Prussia henceforth is merged in Germany

Angela Merkel puts Germany first.

If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.

To call the American role in the world imperial was, for many who did so, a way of asserting that the United States was misusing its power beyond its borders and, in so doing, subverting its founding political principles within them.

In the span of a human lifetime, and well within the collective memory, Britain went from a stable imperial power ruling an appreciable fraction of the Earth's surface to being a tumultuous patchwork which was at least superficially in decline.

Germany is an economic giant but a political midget, and with the end of the Cold War she has started to muscle her presence throughout Europe and the world.

The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come.

Can one name a single nation that has not turned to the West in its quest for civilization?

India will, in the next two decades become a major power and if it fails to do that external pressures will break her up

A great nation cannot throw off the responsibilities which its past history and its position in the world have imposed upon it.

The United States is potent and great. When you shake there is a deep tremblor that passes through the enormous vertebrae of the Andes. If you clamor, it is heard like the roaring of a lion.

Here is a deep layer of messianic consciousness in the mind of America. We never dreamed that we would have as much political power as we possess today; nor for that matter did we anticipate that the most powerful nation on earth would suffer such an ironic refutation of its dreams of mastery.

The expression "World Power" has been made an occasion for ridicule and sneers, but it has a real meaning and a real significance. It means an influence throughout the world, and so long as that influence is wielded for the betterment of mankind, for the uplifting of our unfortunate fellow creatures, for the maintenance of peace, for the promotion of morality and civilization, we may be proud to have taken part in the change of our national policy which made us a world power.

Now what sensible person wants Turkey to be a world power again … ?

In Western Europe there are now only small countries—those that know it and those that don't know it yet.

America has at one bound become a world power in a sense she never was before.

It is the fight for national existence which sets culture moving and opens to it the doors of creation. Later on it is the nation which will ensure the conditions and framework necessary to culture