Hermann Goering Quotes

Would you rather have butter or guns? Preparedness makes us powerful. Butter merely makes us fat.

That is the best Government, which best provides for war.

Without power, without a strong army and a strong navy, there can be no welfare for us .... The German nation will be either the hammer or the anvil.

If we are attacked we can only defend ourselves with guns not with butter.

A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.

The National Defense Act of 1916 left the United States with a General Staff of 19 officers, against Germany's 650.

If our economy is strong, that means the military will be strong. If our economy is weak, that weakens our military.

We must never allow America to become the second strongest nation I the world.

We can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter, but with guns.

Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough.

A nation must be strong in spirit, knowledge, science and morals. Military strength comes last…Today it is not enough to have arms in hand in order to take one’s place in the world.

The nation's mere possession of military power ready for exertion provides visible support for the nation's expression of views on foreign affairs, and that often is enough to make the expression persuasive. Thus a foreign policy which has a respectable basis in justice and morality is strengthened if it has also a respectable basis in physical force.

We can live without butter, but not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter, but with guns.

Let the natural process of war among nations smother the weak.

Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one.

In relations with other nations, there is neither right nor wrong; there is only strength and weakness.

There's no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons

There is a rank due to the United States among nations, which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness. If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure the peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known that we are at all times ready for war.

The survival of this country depends upon letting the world know we have the power and the ability to use it if the occasion demands.

The balance of power is the scale of peace. The same balance would be preserved were all the world destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but since some will not, others dare not lay them aside. Horrid mischief would ensue were one-half the world deprived of the use of them;

It may safely be asserted that the art of war will soon be reduced to a simple question of expenditure and credit, and that the largest purse will be the strongest arm.

All the armed prophets have conquered, all the unarmed have perished.

When you’ve got enough firepower, you win wars.

It is not important what the other side says or means. What is important are the military capabilities of the other side.

America must get off a permanent war footing.