The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

8.106 Adolf Hitler 1889-1945
Die Nacht der langen Messer.
The night of the long knives.
Phrase given to the massacre of Ernst Roehm and his associates by Hitler on 29-30 June 1934, though taken
from an early Nazi marching song. S. H. Roberts ‘The House Hitler Built’ (1937) pt. 2, ch. 3; subsequently
associated also with Harold Macmillan’s large-scale dismissals from his Cabinet on 13 July 1962
Ich gehe mit traumwandlerischer Sicherheit den Weg, den mich die Vorsehung gehen heisst.
I go the way that Providence dictates with the assurance of a sleepwalker.
Speech in Munich, 15 March 1936, in Max Domarus (ed.) ‘Hitler: Reden und Proklamationen 1932-
1945’ (1962) p. 606
Es ist die letzte territoriale Forderung, die ich Europa zu stellen habe, aber es ist die Forderung,
von der ich nicht abgehe, und die ich, so Gott will, erfüllen werde.
It is the last territorial claim which I have to make in Europe, but it is the claim from which I
will not recede and which, God-willing, I will make good.
On the Sudetenland, in Speech at Berlin Sportpalast, 26 September 1938: Max Domarus (ed.) ‘Hitler: Reden
und Proklamationen 1932-1945’ (1962) p. 927
In bezug auf das sudetendeutsche Problem meine Geduld jetzt zu Ende ist!
With regard to the problem of the Sudeten Germans, my patience is now at an end!
Speech at Berlin Sportpalast, 26 September 1938, in Max Domarus (ed.) ‘Hitler: Reden und Proklamationen
1932-1945’ (1962) p. 932
Die breite Masse eines Volkes...einer grossen Lüge leichter zum Opfer fällt als einer kleinen.
The broad mass of a nation...will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one.
‘Mein Kampf’ (1925) vol. 1, ch. 10
Brennt Paris?
Is Paris burning?
25 August 1944, in Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre ‘Is Paris Burning?’ (1965) ch. 5
8.107 Thomas Hobbes 1588-1679
Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some
eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.
‘Human Nature’ (1650) ch. 9, sect. 13
True and False are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither
Truth nor Falsehood.
‘Leviathan’ (1651) pt. 1, ch. 4
In Geometry (which is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on
mankind) men begin at settling the significations of their words; which...they call Definitions.
‘Leviathan’ (1651) pt. 1, ch. 4
Words are wise men’s counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the money of fools,
that value them by the authority of an Aristotle, a Cicero, or a Thomas, or any other doctor