What Hitler was able to do to a crowd in two and a half hours will never be repeated in 10,000 years. Because of his miraculous throat construction, he was able to create a rhapsody of hysteria. In time, he became the living unknown soldier of Germany.

Democracy has no convictions for which people would be willing to stake their lives.

An eccentric, gangling man, whose sardonic wit somewhat compensated for his shallow mind.

I had by this time heard a number of his public speeches and was beginning to understand the pattern of their appeal. The first secret lay in his choice of wor…