Hermann Goring Quotes

The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders...tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.

We will go down in history either as the world's greatest statesmen or its worst villains.

Whenever I hear the word culture, I reach for my revolver

God gave the savior to the German people. We have faith, deep and unshakeable faith, that he [Hitler] was sent to us by God to save Germany.

I know two types of law because I know two types of men, those who are with us and those who are against us.

The victor will always be the judge, and the vanquished the accused.

The Jew must clearly understand one thing at once, he must get out!

The Americans cannot build aeroplanes. They are very good at refrigerators and razor blades.

I think that women are wonderful but I've never met one yet who didn't show more feeling than logic.

Shoot first and inquire afterwards, and if you make mistakes, I will protect you.

No enemy bomber can reach the Ruhr. If one reaches the Ruhr, my name is not Goering. You may call me Meyer.

Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat.

The only one who really knows about the Reichstag is I, because I set it on fire!

Of course people don't want war. Why should a poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best thing he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece?

If people say that here and there someone has been taken away and maltreated, I can only reply: You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs.

Every bullet fired from the barrel of a police pistol was my bullet. If you call that murder, then I am the murderer.

It is silly to appeal to people's moral sense.

Naturally the common people don't want war. . . but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along. . .

Why, of course, the people don't want war.

My measures will not be crippled by any bureaucracy. Here I don't have to worry about Justice; my mission is only to destroy and to exterminate; nothing more.

In Berlin Jews controlled almost one hundred percent of the theaters and cinemas before the rise to power.

I joined the party because I was a revolutionary, not because of any ideological nonsense.

There is hardly any politically minded man who acknowledges and agrees with every point of the program of a political party.

It wasn't that I amassed it with aims of selling it and becoming a rich man. My personality demanded that I be surrounded by the best examples of the world's art.

I will decide who is a Jew!

If I didn't have a sense of humor, how could I stand this trial now?

I am what I have always been: the last Renaissance man, if I may be allowed to say so.

What do I care about danger? I've sent soldiers and airmen to death against the enemy - why should I be afraid?

We have no butter... but I ask you, would you rather have butter or guns? Preparedness makes us powerful. Butter merely makes us fat.

Above all, I shall see to it that the enemy will not be able to drop any bombs.

It's east to start a war in any country

My Luftwaffe is invincible... And so now we turn to England. How long will this one last - two, three weeks?

I especially denounce the terrible mass murders, which I cannot understand. I never ordered any killing or tortures where I had the power to prevent such actions!

I would be able to defend my actions, no matter what [evidence] they had on me.

I live the life of the last Renaissance man.

The Americans are good about making fancy cars and refrigerators, but that doesn't mean they are any good at making aircraft. They are bluffing. They are excellent at bluffing.

I herewith commission you to carry out all preparations with regard to... a total solution of the Jewish question in those territories of Europe which are under German influence.

In the beginning [Hitler] was genial and pleasant. He would have extraordinary willpower and unheard-of influence on people.