I intend to set up a thousand-year Reich and anyone who supports me in this battle is a fellow-fighter for a unique spiritual—I would say divine—creation... Rudolf Hess, my assistant of many years standing, would tell you: If we have such a leader, God is with us.

Quoted by Richard Breiting in Secret Conversations with Hitler: The Two Newly-Discovered 1931 Interviews, p. 68 (1971).