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Quotes of the Day for 20 April 2005 - Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler was born on Braunau, Austria on this day in 1889. Because he was his mother's fourth child but the first to survive infancy he was spoiled and doted on by her while he was harshly treated by his father. He was an indifferent student but a decorated soldier in the first world war. He joined the German Workers Party in 1919, renamed it the National Socialist German Workers Party and took it over by 1921, and led an unsuccessful coup in 1923. After writing Mein Kampf in prison, he rebounded to become chancellor in 1933 and went on to become one of the most ruthless and evil rulers of all time. I don't normally use Hitler quotes, but if you apply a sense of the ironic based on the source it probably won't hurt you any to read them. And now that I think about it, I guess I didn't come up with a more uplifting theme than yesterday's, but I surely will tomorrow.

By means of shrewd lies, unremittingly repeated, it is possible to make people believe that heaven is hell - and hell heaven. The greater the lie, the more readily it will be believed.

If you wish the sympathy of the broad masses, then you must tell them the crudest and most stupid things.

Mankind has grown strong in external struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace.

The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subjected people to carry arms, history shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subjected peoples to carry arms have prepared their own fall.

There is a road to freedom. Its milestones are Obedience, Endeavor, Honesty, Order, Cleanliness, Sobriety, Truthfulness, Sacrifice, and love of the Fatherland.

What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
     - All from Adolf Hitler, 1889 - 1945

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