Thursday, November 01, 2007

Anyone in this world who does not succeed in being hated by his adversaries does not seem to me to be worth much as a friend. And thus the friendship of these people for our young movement was not only worthless, but solely and always harmful, and it was also the main reason why, first of all, we chose the name of 'party' - we had grounds for hoping that by this alone a whole swarm of these folkish sleepwalkers would be frightened away from us - and why in the second place we termed ourselves National Socialist German Worker's Party.

The first expression kept away the antiquity enthusiasts, the big-mouths and superficial proverb-makers of the so-called 'folkish idea', and the second freed us from the entire host of knights of the 'spiritual sword', all the poor wretches who wield the 'spiritual weapon' as a protecting shield to hide their actual cowardice."
-Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, page 363

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