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George Lincoln Rockwell
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“This was just practice—but we were practicing to kill the Nazis— the mortal enemies of the Communists. So the “liberal” press, gleeful at every sign of our growing strength, not only never noticed this bit of “brutality”—nor the hundreds of similar occurrences—but actually gloated in feature articles at the way our “boys” were being taught to growl and twist cold steel in the bowels of the enemy. Think back and you can remember it. Men were drowned, beaten up by over-zealous geants or chiefs, accidentally run over by tanks, shot and purposely subjected to the risks of war brutality so that they would be ready to fight a tough, fanatical enemy.”
George Lincoln Rockwell (1918–1967) first seen 1957 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Who Wants Panty-Waist Marines?", The American Mercury, April 1957, p. 120
“If we are to be the last of the Nordic MEN who conquered the world, if we are finally to be overwhelmed by a pack of rats, let us at least face the death of our race as our ancestors faced their deaths-like MEN. Let us not crawl down amongst the rats begging for mercy or trying to out-sneak them and pretend ourselves to be rats! Let us stand on the scaffold of history, if hang we must, like the martyrs of Nuremberg, tall and proud! Is life so sweet, is comfort so precious and a job in a Jewish counting house so sacred that we are AFRAID to grasp the mighty hand reached down to us out of our glorious past by ADOLF HITLER? Again, to HELL with sneaking and "safety"!”
George Lincoln Rockwell (1918–1967) first seen 1964 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A slightly different version circulates online, "White" instead of "Nordic" men and slightly different word order throughout. This appears to originate from the second, 1964 edition of the pamphlet, while the above vers…
“In Mein Kampf I found abundant 'mental sunshine' which bathed all the gray world suddenly in the clear light of reason and understanding. Word after word, sentence after sentence stabbed into the darkness like lightning bolts of revelation, tearing and ripping away the cobwebs of more than thirty years of darkness; brilliantly illuminating the heretofore obscure reasons for the world's madness. I was transfixed, hypnotized. I could not lay the book down without agonies of impatience to get back to it. I read it walking to the squadron, I took it into the air and read it, propped up on the chartboard, while I automatically gave the instructions to the other planes circling over the desert. I read it on the Coronado Ferry. I read it into the night and resumed the next morning. When I had finished, I started again and reread every word, underlining and marking especially magnificent passages. I studied it, thought about it and wondered at the utter, indescribable genius of it. How could the world not only ignore such a book, but damn it and curse it and hate it, and pretend that it was a plan for 'conquering' the world, when it was the most obvious and rational plan for saving the world which has ever been written? Had nobody read it, I wondered, that people went around saying it was the work of a mad "rug-chewer"? How could sensible people get away with such monstrous intellectual fraud? Why was it so hated and cursed? I could see why the Jews would hate and curse it, but why my own people? I reread and studied it some more. Slowly, bit by bit, I began to understand. I realized that National Socialism, the iconoclastic worldview of Adolf Hitler, was the doctrine of scientific, racial idealism, actually, a new 'religion' for our times. I saw that I was living in the age of a new worldview. Two thousand years ago there had been a similar rise of a new approach or worldview, called a 'religion'; a worldview which shook and changed the world forever.”
George Lincoln Rockwell (1918–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But I reckoned without any knowledge of the human content of the 'right-wing'. From the millionaires to the scared little people who attend the endless, pitiful 'conservative', '100% American', 'old-fashioned', 'constitutional', 'states' rights' meetings, I learned by bitter experience that the human material of the right-wing consists 90% of cowards, dopes, nuts, one-track minds, blabbermouths, boobs, incurable tightwads and — worst of all — hobbyists, people who have come to enjoy a perverted, masochistic pleasure in telling each other forever how we are all being raped by the "shhh — you-know-whos," but who, under no conditions, would think of risking their two cars, landscaped homes or juicy jobs to DO something about it.”
George Lincoln Rockwell (1918–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But when the survival of a whole people is at stake, as the survival of White, Western, Christian civilization is now at stake -- there IS no "moral" and "immoral". The only immoral thing is to permit an enemy to destroy one's people, either by decay or by physical annihilation. I do not hesitate to admit that I would do anything, absolutely ANYTHING, to ensure the survival and happiness of our White, Western People [...] I mean to WIN. I am a political soldier, not a preacher. Perhaps I will go to hell for doing what must be done. But from down there, I will be able to look up and see the sweet little White boys and girls once again playing in a White, Christian, decent, safe and wholesome America. And if I can do that, then bring on the devil with his worst.”
George Lincoln Rockwell (1918–1967) first seen 1964 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Only failure is 'immoral'", Rockwell Report, Dec. 1964, p. 12
“A right-wing businessman, when he gets sick, doesn't try to doctor himself, nor does he try to practice law himself, nor does he even try to do his own advertising. He hires professional experts to do these highly technical jobs for him. But when that same right-wing businessman wants to move the people of a whole nation to an understanding of our national peril, he doesn't hesitate to spend relatively huge sums trying to write and produce his own amateur propaganda. In almost every case he produces propaganda which he likes, completely forgetting in his political excitement that the art of propaganda (and advertising) is not in producing that which one likes and admires one's self, but that which will produce the effect desired—sales in the case of advertising and political conviction in the case of propaganda. Because he is able to think, he presumes that his audience is also able to think—a completely unwarranted assumption.”
George Lincoln Rockwell (1918–1967) first seen 1966 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From Ivory Tower To Privy Wall: On The Art Of Propaganda", National Socialist World, Spring 1966, no. 1, p. 8
“When I began, I purposely made my propaganda as brutal and shockingly rough as I could, simply to force attention. And I have kept everlastingly at the business of building a simple and direct image of all-out hostility to "Jews and niggers" in the minds of millions of Americans, regardless of the costs in other respects. (And when I have the rare opportunity to use some mass medium, as was recently the case when I gave a long interview to Playboy, I am forced to walk a careful line between what I should like to say and what the enemy would like to hear me say. Unless I deliberately sound at least halfway like a raving illiterate with three loose screws, such an interview would never be printed. This is another thing that most people fail to understand about my "Nazi" technique.)”
George Lincoln Rockwell (1918–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I feel that terrorism is a valid weapon in guerrilla warfare, or any kind of warfare; and under the circumstances in which our country finds itself, I would favor terrorism if it could be complete—if it would work. A hundred years ago, I'd have been a Klansman with a rope and a gun and the whole business. I'd have really gone all out during the Reconstruction to save the white South. And make no mistake about the terrorism: It did the job. But today, it plays directly into the hands of Martin Luther Coon: it manufactures martyrs for the Northern press, for the liberals, and it doesn't scare the niggers out of hell-raising anymore.”
George Lincoln Rockwell (1918–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This time, there at last exists in this world an organization not dedicated to saving just one PART of the White Race--as the Klan tried and succeeded for a time in saving the South, and the German Nazis tried and succeeded for a while in saving Germany-- THIS TIME, the American Nazi Party and the World Union of National Socialists, of which the American Nazi Party is a part, will see to it that the White Race never again lays itself open to brainwashing and defeat by DIVIDING ITSELF and by being taught to HATE ITSELF and PARTS OF ITSELF--the way Yankees and "rebels" were taught to hate each other, and Americans and "Nazis" were taught to hate each other.”
George Lincoln Rockwell (1918–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I realized that this new and wonderful doctrine of scientific truth applied to man himself, as well as to nature and inanimate matter, was the only thing which could save man from his own degradation in luxury, self-seeking short-sightedness and racial degeneration. The doctrine of Adolf Hitler was the political salvation of our times, and Adolf Hitler himself the rescuer sent recurrently to a collapsing humanity by an inscrutable Providence. Hitler’s and Germany's “crucifixion” was all according to the inevitable workings of this unknowable Scenarist. Even the eleven hanged “disciples” in Nuremberg were not without significance!”
George Lincoln Rockwell (1918–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The mighty White Race is brainwashed, filled with suicidal self-hatred, crazy about its deadly enemies, trivialized, doped up on drugs and lies, and apparently rushing headlong toward oblivion. But the strength of the blood is still there, as we have shown in every war where the Jews have "turned us loose". Whenever as in World War II, the Jews wish us to be our ancient, ferocious, mighty selves, able to smash anything in our way: whenever they allow Natural Law to return to us, even in a temporary and wrong way, our people show themselves still heroes and fighters, not decadent weaklings, or in any way like the people of a dying culture. The rumors of our death, to quote Mark Twain, are "greatly exaggerated". They are appearances only.”
George Lincoln Rockwell (1918–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source