Peaceful Belligerence

"there lies no threat against the rest of the world. We desire peace perhaps more than all others, since we need it in order to create bread for the millions of our unemployed fellow-countrymen. But peace will always be given only to him who is worthy of peace. And only that people is worthy which maintains a consciousness of the necessity for honour and freedom."
 -- Adolf H. (from speech in Kiel, May 1933)

Romanticizing Self-Sacrifice

   "What the man gives in courage on the battlefield, the woman gives in eternal self-sacrifice, in eternal pain and suffering. Every child that a woman brings into the world is a battle, a battle waged for the existence of her people"
-- AH; from Speech to the NS Frauenschaft (September 8, 1934) 

Germany First

"People complain of a shortage of this and that - for instance, of a shortage of cotton. I say that in the next four years we shall produce our own German cloth. Others raise the question of rubber. I tell you that factories will spring from the earth and that in four years we shall ride on our own German rubber tires. It may then be asked, 'With what motive power will you drive you cars?' I say that we shall take gasoline from our own oil and coal."
-- AH; from speech to Nuremburg Labor Front (Sept. 12, 1936)

Bad-faith pandering to individualism

 "How can Communism be thought possible in the most individualistic country in the world? It is only possible where every man is a number, not in Italy where every man is an individual, and more, has individuality."
-- Benito Mussolini; from 'The Fascista'

Spurious Pretext for Invasion

 "Our cause in Ethiopia is a just one. In a few days it will be laid before the League's counsel. It will be laid before the whole world—proof that the Ethiopians are a barbaric people, sunk in the practice of slavery"

 -- Benito Mussolini; from interview with London Daily Mail (Aug 26, 1935)

Attacking a Peaceful Neighbor

"My pact with the Poles was merely conceived of as a gaining of time."
-- Adolf Hitler; from The Obersalzberg Speech (Aug. 22, 1939)

Nationalism

"Why should we need to socialize the banks and factories? We are socializing the people."

-- Adolf Hitler; to Hermann Rauschning (1939)

Against Democracy

"After socialism, Fascism trains its guns on the whole block of democratic ideologies, and rejects both their premises and their practical applications and implements. Fascism denies that numbers, as such, can be the determining factor in human society; it denies the right of numbers to govern by means of periodical consultations; it asserts the irremediable and fertile and beneficent inequality of men who cannot be leveled by any such mechanical and extrinsic device as universal suffrage"

--Benito Mussolini; from 'The Doctrine of Fascism (1932)

Law and Order

"our wish is that responsible folk should once more be brought together so that every class and every individual should be given that authority over those below and that responsibility towards those above which are essential if one is to build up the life of a community"

-- Adolf Hitler; from speech at Stuttgart (Feb. 15, 1933)

Regressive taxation

"the tax mill should be built downstream and not at the source."
-- Adolf Hitler; from Speech on Enabling Act (March 23, 1933)

Conflating the Temporal and Ecclesiastical

"You separate religion from your policies, contradicting the pure nature which affirms Absolute Authority to the Lord and your Creator."
-- Osama Bin Laden; from 'Letter to America'

Antifascist "terrorists"

Fascism and the Press

"One thing which increased... our liking for Italy is the fact that there, the leadership of state and the policies of the press go hand in hand, instead of letting the leadership of state talk about understanding while the press is launching a smear campaign in the other direction!"

-- Adolf Hitler; from speech to Reichstag (Feb. 20, 1938)

The Right Wing Belief System

"I believe in Divine Justice. I believe that it has defeated Germany because we had become faithless, and I believe that it will help us because we now once again profess our faith. I believe that the long arm of the Almighty will withdraw from those who are seeking merely alien shelter. "

Adolf Hitler -- from speech at Berlin Sportpalast (Feb. 27, 1932)

The fascist game plan

"If once popular support, power and the authority of tradition are united in one, that authority may be considered to be unshakable."
-- from 'Mein Kampf'

The Duty of Fascism

"When, in parliament, I delivered my first speech of November 16, 1922, after the Fascist revolution, I concluded by invoking the assistance of God in my difficult task. Well, this sentence of mine seemed to be out of place! In the Italian parliament, a field of action for Italian Masonry, the name of God had been banned for a long time... It remained for me to make this bold innovation! And in an intense period of revolution! What is the truth! It is that a faith openly professed is a sign of strength. I have seen the religious spirit bloom again; churches once more are crowded, the ministers of God are themselves invested with new respect. Fascism has done and is doing its duty."
 
-- Benito Mussolini; from his autobiography (1928)

The Necessity of Religion

"There are many signs of a struggle, every day increasing in violence, against the dogmatic principles of the various Churches, without which, in practice, religious belief is inconceivable in this world of humanity. The general mass of a nation do not consist of philosophers; faith for them is very largely the sole basis for a moral view of life. The various attempts to find substitutes have not proved so suitable or successful as to be obviously a good exchange for the former religious confessions."
-- Adolf Hitler; from Mein Kampf

Giving Thanks (Part 2)

"Today I must bow down in thanks to Providence, whose mercy has enabled me, once an unknown soldier in the World War, to thus help our Volk to win the battle for the restoration of its honor and uprightness"
 
-- Adolf Hitler; from speech to the Reichstag (January 30, 1937)

The Dangers of Contraception

"means for preventing a birth are offered for sale in every chemist's shop... what is in practice a cessation of fecundity in millions of our best people is not regarded as an evil or an offense against the morals of this sanctimonious society ; it is instead a sop to its short-sighted slackness of thought. For if it were otherwise, they would have to rack their brains and consider how to make provision for nourishing and conserving the healthy representatives of our nation, who should perform a similar service for the benefit of generations to come." 

-- Adolf Hitler; from 'Mein Kampf'

Martial Virtue

"Against the Jewish-democratic idea of blind worship of majorities, the Army held aloft that of faith in personality... This was the school for the German nation, and it was not without reason that the inveterate hatred of those whose envy and greed required that the State should be powerless and its citizens weaponless was concentrated upon it."
-- Adolf Hitler; from 'Mein Kampf'