By relevant I mean having bearing on the political situation of the USA and the current administration and/or what you could see people in this administration saying themselves.
- Hermann Goering - Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don't want war neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.
- Joseph Göebbels - The war made possible for us the solution of a whole series of problems that could never have been solved in normal times.
- Joseph Göebbels - During a war, news should be given out for instruction rather than information.
- Joseph Göebbels - It is the absolute right of the state to supervise the formation of public opinion.
- Adolf Hitler - The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed, for the vast masses of a nation are in the depths of their hearts more easily deceived than they are consciously and intentionally bad. The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one, for they themselves often tell little lies, but would be ashamed to tell big lies.
- Adolf Hitler - All propaganda must be so popular and on such an intellectual level, that even the most stupid of those toward whom it is directed will understand it... Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way around, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.
- Adolf Hitler - What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
- Adolf Hitler - The efficiency of the truly national leader consists primarily in preventing the division of the attention of a people, and always in concentrating it on a single enemy.
- Dr. Joseph Mengele - The more we do to you, the less you seem to believe we are doing it.
- Adolf Eichmann - I was only following orders.