“We knew it might take five or ten or twenty years, yet gradually an authoritarian state arose within the democratic state, and a nucleus of fanatical devotion and ruthless determination formed in a wretched world that lacked basic convictions. Only one danger could have jeopardized this development ... if they had from the first day annihilated with the utmost brutality the nucleus of our new movement.” — Adolf Hitler, Die Reden Hitlers am Reichsparteitag (1934 Nazi book containing all the speeches delivered by Hitler at Nuremberg). via Fire the Fools