Dietrich quite openly criticised measures taken by the Fuhrer. He complains that the Fuhrer does not give his military staff a sufficiently free hand and that this tendency has now become so pronounced that the Fuhrer even lays down the employment of individual companies. But Dietrich is in no position to judge. The Fuhrer cannot rely on his military advisers. They have so often deceived him and thrown dust in his eyes that he now has to attend to every detail. Thank God he does attend to them, for if he did not, matters would be even worse than they are anyway.

It was the Hitler Offensive. It was brilliantly planned by Hitler but poorly executed by the generals. It was not Rundstedt who was at fault so much as Dietric…

That's your reward for all that you have done in these past five years!? I'd rather be shot than obey that order!

He (Hitler) knew even less than the rest. He allowed himself to be taken for a sucker by everyone.

I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men... in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor.

I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my president. For I know he lives and thinks and works to make sure th…

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.