1.
We will go down in history either as the world's greatest statesmen or its worst villains.
Hermann Goring
We will be remembered either as the planet's most remarkable leaders or its worst criminals.
2.
Whenever I hear the word culture, I reach for my revolver
Hermann Goring
When I hear the term 'culture', my first instinct is to arm myself.
3.
Our movement took a grip on cowardly Marxism and from it extracted the meaning of socialism. It also took from the cowardly middle-class parties their nationalism. Throwing both into the cauldron of our way of life there emerged, as clear as a crystal, the synthesis -- German National Socialism.
Hermann Goring
4.
The Jew must clearly understand one thing at once, he must get out!
Hermann Goring
The Jew needs to be aware of one thing right away: they must depart!
5.
I think that women are wonderful but I've never met one yet who didn't show more feeling than logic.
Hermann Goring
I believe that females are marvelous but to date I have not encountered one who didn't display more emotion than rationality.
6.
Shoot first and inquire afterwards, and if you make mistakes, I will protect you.
Hermann Goring
Fire first and investigate later, and if you err, I will guard you.
7.
The only one who really knows about the Reichstag is I, because I set it on fire!
Hermann Goring
9.
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.
Hermann Goring
10.
In Berlin Jews controlled almost one hundred percent of the theaters and cinemas before the rise to power.
Hermann Goring
11.
If I didn't have a sense of humor, how could I stand this trial now?
Hermann Goring
12.
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!
Hermann Goring
13.
In the beginning [Hitler] was genial and pleasant. He would have extraordinary willpower and unheard-of influence on people.
Hermann Goring
14.
When I hear the word 'culture', I reach for my checkbook.
Edward Abbey
15.
Goering appeared at times to be all things to all men.
Richard Overy
16.
According to Goering and the Luftwaffe High Command, they were supposed to be the fighter elite.
Adolf Galland
17.
Hermann Goering, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Albert Speer, Walther Frank, Julius Streicher and Robert Ley did pass under my inspectionand interrogation in 1945 but they only proved that National Socialism was a gangster interlude at a rather low order of mental capacity and with a surprisingly high incidence of alcoholism.
John Kenneth Galbraith
18.
Goering got into endless arguments with other officers [and] he did not like routine work.
Richard Overy
19.
Many of the political jokes that circulated in the Third Reich were directed at Goering. He collected them [all] in a large leather notebook and delighted in re-telling most of them to his friends.
Richard Overy
20.
Goering was a contradictory [and] complex ... character.
Richard Overy
21.
Among the roles Ive played on stage, television and in films were politicos as diverse as Abe Lincoln, Juan Peron, Herman Goering, George Wallace and both Roosevelts.
Bob Gunton