Hjalmar Schacht

“I have never been a National Socialist. I have never taken the oath.”

“The only thing they can prove against me is that I am intelligent.”

“I did my duty. I am here because I did my duty.”

“If you want to enthrone might, you can't do it with butter. You need guns.”

“I am one of those who do not believe that a national debt is a national blessing.”

“All the same, the fundamental truths which govern economics are not affected by the establishment or overthrow of political systems.”

“The first thing that the historian will have to do is to get rid of the legend of my financial wizardry.”

“A country which makes monetary policy one of the reserved rights of the sovereign state is a country which is doomed.”

“I would never have made a pact with the Russians.”

“The Four Year Plan is...a plan which will ruin German finance.”