George Lincoln Rockwell

George Lincoln Rockwell in 1965

George Lincoln Rockwell (9 March 1918 – 25 August 1967) was an American neo-Nazi activist who founded the American Nazi Party (ANP) and became one of the most notorious white supremacists in the United States until his murder in 1967. His beliefs, strategies, and writings have continued to influence many white supremacists and neo-Nazis. Rockwell coined the expression White Power, which was also the title of his posthumously published political manifesto.

Quotes

1957

• The Marxist ideas which have taken many decades to gnaw into the vitals of the great Western nations have seized the once self-reliant descendants of the Vikings in acute form, and, in little more than a generation, have transformed many in a nation of heroes into spoiled, alcohol-bemused, welfare-worshipping, security-loving, responsibility-shirking people who excuse their utter refusal to do anything to help defend their country with the age-old refuge of the coward; “It’s no use resisting, I’m too little and weak.”
  • "No Wonder Iceland Hates Us!", The American Mercury, January 1957, p. 7

• Few places on earth show more clearly than Iceland what happens to a people who abandon the civilization-building principles of enterprise, discipline and thrift to pursue the will-o-the-wisps of security, libertinism and extravagance.
  • "No Wonder Iceland Hates Us!", The American Mercury, January 1957, p. 7

• Today, the machinery which is able to take average American boys and make them into superbly-disciplined, fighting men—Marines—is being systematically and coldly dismantled by the same insidious forces which constantly promote the strength of our most dangerous enemies.
  • "Who Wants Panty-Waist Marines?", The American Mercury, April 1957, p. 118

• 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.
  • "Who Wants Panty-Waist Marines?", The American Mercury, April 1957, p. 120

1959

• I suggest that you instruct your people to see me openly, honestly, and that we join in an open, honest, and successful fight to destroy Israel the way it must be destroyed, by cutting off the parasite's blood.
  • In letter to Egyptian President Gamal Nasser.

1960

In Hoc Signo Vinces

• 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"!
  • pp. 11–12, first edition
  • 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 version appears to be from the first edition.
• It is part of the Jews to be sneaky and sly. The genius of our people has ever been joyous strength, robust forcefulness, directness, manly courage, and flaming heroism.
  When the Jews, with their economic terrorism, jails, bullies and hangmen, scare the White man into laying down his cudgel and goad him into trying to out-sneak Jewish tyranny, the Jews have completely emasculated the once-strong White man, and doomed him to dishonor and defeat. The White man can NEVER win by SNEAKING.
  • p. 12, first edition

How to Get Out or Stay Out of the Insane Asylum

• The top Jews who operate the terror and tyranny machine can survive and manipulate us exactly as the lion tamer can manipulate a cageful of deadly lions and tigers because the animals are too stupid and afraid of the silly crack of his whip and his chair to see the situation as it is and use the enormous power they have but are afraid to use.
  • p. 7
• Knowing this, we know that the psychiatrist, when he gets hold of you, is going to be looking for these "delusions of grandeur" and "delusions of persecutions". He is going to be waiting like a cat at a ratio hole for you to come out with the slightest hint that YOU, (instead of the Jews) are chosen to fulfill an historical mission such as preserving the White Race, and the concomitant proposition that the Jews are "persecuting" you for trying to expose them.
  • p. 9
• The Jews have no such all-powerful plot. They DO have a deadly plot of the top Jew-Communist-Zionists, and it is taking over the world, -but not because they are so brilliant or so daring. They have been winning because we have let them goad us into being stupid, weak and disorganized.
  • p. 12
• By the exercise of REASON and GUTS instead of wild emotion and "righteous wrath" at the illegal incarceration, I won over the Dr's. under Shultz and the lady liberal psychiatrist, and these people had the courage to defy the two top-bosses and declare I was sane in TEN DAYS, in spite of the hysteria of the Chief of Psychiatry, who was shouting, "You're SICK! SICK!! SICK!" even as I left the lock-up.
  • p. 12

1961

This Time The World

Page numbers from 3rd edition, 1979.

• Out of the mud and slime of lies, your holy red, white and black Swastika has been flung back into the skies in Virginia, United States of America, and we pledge you our lives, Adolf Hitler, that we shall not flag or fail until we have utterly destroyed the forces of Marxism and darkness.
  • Dedication, p. vi
• 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.
  • pp. 83–84
• WE are the new ‘barbarians’, forged to iron-hardness in the fires of their hate and persecution. All over the world, we wait to pounce on the arrogant, strutting ‘emperors’ of Marxism when they have over-extended themselves just a little bit more.
  • p. 85
• Goose-pimples rose all over me, my hair stood on end, my eyes filled with tears of love and gratitude for this greatest of all conquerors of human misery and shame, and my breath came in little gasps. If I had not known that the Leader would have scorned such adulation, I might have fallen to my knees in unashamed worship, but instead I drew myself to attention, raised my arm in the eternal salute of the ancient Roman Legions and repeated the holy words, "Heil Hitler!" - meaning every syllable with all my heart, mind and soul.
  • p. 176
• I knew I would not live to see the victory which I would make possible, but I would not die before I had made that victory certain.
  • p. 177
• The problem of building a political organization with the ability to move these masses the other way, in spite of the enemy’s utter mastery of all means of communicating with the masses, is, thus, first the problem of reaching the masses—any way at all.
  It does not matter how you reach them at first, so long as they come to know of you and the fact that you are at the opposite pole from those in power.
  • p. 240; also quoted by Gerald Early

1962

• In between the Nazis and the Communists is the great mass of non-fanatics, the TV watchers and the comic book readers.
  • Speech at Carleton College, quoted here

• Muhammad understands the vicious fraud of the Jewish exploitation of the Negro people and, fighting his way from the gutters as we did, he had [sic] demonstrated truly incredible leadership abilities. He has gathered millions of the dirty, immoral, drunken, filthy-mouthed, lazy and repulsive people sneeringly called 'niggers' and inspired them to the point where they are clean, sober, honest, hard working, dignified, dedicated and admirable human beings in spite of their color.
  • January 1962 in The Rockwell Report regarding Elijah Muhammad. See The Portable Malcolm X Reader edited by Marable and Felber, p. 166

• No American white desires to intermix with black people.
  • 25 February 1962 at Chicago Savior's Day annual Nation of Islam convention, according to 1 April 1962 edition of The Rockwell Report, as affirmed by page 167 of The Portable Malcolm X Reader by Marable and Felber

1963

• Our cause is almost ridiculous. We are ridiculous.
  • at a speech in August 1963 where few attended, quoted in Fred C. Shapiro, "The Last Word (We Hope) On George Lincoln Rockwell", Esquire, February 1967, p. 105, quoting the Washington Star
• I think Jews, in terms of intellect, are a superior race. They're smarter. They outsmart our people left and right all the time. They've been doing it for thousands of years. They're smart people. They're brilliant. But our people have something that the Jews don't have, and this is the main difference between racial, loathsome Jews like yourselves and people like me. And that is idealism. Jews just can't believe people are willing to die for something, for an idea. They just can't understand that.
  • Interview on September 28, 1963, with Ralph Ginzburg, published February 1964, "The Man Who Thinks Goldwater Is a Communist". Fact. Vol. 1, no. 1. p. 43
• In ordinary, everyday responsibilities, such as earning a living, I am a positive flop, and this makes me difficult to live with. I am only interested in the extraordinary, in the things that most people consider 'impossible.' Only when faced with enormous challenges do I become deeply interested. The driving force of my life has been a deep satisfaction in defying overwhelming odds.
  • Interview on September 28, 1963, with Ralph Ginzburg, published February 1964, "The Man Who Thinks Goldwater Is a Communist". Fact. Vol. 1, no. 1. p. 44
• I think an atheist and a religious person are both conceited. The Christian says I have examined the entire universe and I find that the only true religion is this. And the atheist says, have examined the universe and there ain't no God. And I don't think you can make either one of those statements. I think both of them are conceited. My statement is I don't know. I don't know how I got here and I don't know where I'm going, or if I'm going anyplace.
  • Interview on September 28, 1963, with Ralph Ginzburg, published February 1964, "The Man Who Thinks Goldwater Is a Communist". Fact. Vol. 1, no. 1. p. 45
• The purpose of life is to struggle as hard as you can for what you believe in and enjoy the struggle. I'm a Dionysian. I believe life is struggle. Even to stand up is a struggle against gravity. I think that the joy of life is in the struggle itself. You've got to find fun in the fight to live.
  • Interview on September 28, 1963, with Ralph Ginzburg, published February 1964, "The Man Who Thinks Goldwater Is a Communist". Fact. Vol. 1, no. 1. p. 45
  • Audio of the interview with Ginzburg is included in Nazi Rockwell! A Portrait in Sound (1973)

1964

• 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.
  • "Only failure is 'immoral'", Rockwell Report, Dec. 1964, p. 12

1965

• Our motto continues to be: 'White Man, stand with us and fight, or stand out of our way!'
  • "The Ku Klux Klan", Rockwell Report, Oct-Nov 1965, p. 11

1966

• 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.
  • "From Ivory Tower To Privy Wall: On The Art Of Propaganda", National Socialist World, Spring 1966, no. 1, p. 8
• To try to use the "facts and arguments" method with the masses of the people is the eternal stumbling block of the right wing.
  • "From Ivory Tower To Privy Wall: On The Art Of Propaganda", p. 11
• 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.)
  • "From Ivory Tower To Privy Wall: On The Art Of Propaganda", p. 11
• My Ph.D. critics regularly berate me for the vulgar and brutal material in the Stormtrooper. Because these gentlemen don't like to see the word "nigger" in print, or crude drawings of Jews, they often insist that I am a damned fool, a hoodlum, or an agent provocateur, trying to ruin the whole movement by printing such rough stuff. These sincere but pitifully blind men are going to have to understand that one can't win elections with Ph.D. votes.
  • "From Ivory Tower To Privy Wall: On The Art Of Propaganda", p. 11
• These people have no argument to stand by. They have no facts. I do. And I'm gonna believe them. As long as I have the documents; bagfuls, box fulls, libraries full of them, I'm going to believe the facts and not somebody screaming at me or trying to punch me in the nose. This has resulted, ladies and gentlemen, this deprivation you are suffering of, the lack of news, the lack of the facts, has resulted in what they call liberalism.
  • November 30, 1966 speech at Brown University

Interview with Alex Haley

Interview with Alex Haley, published in Playboy (April 1966) (Edited by Playboy).

• A leopard doesn't change his spots just because you bring him in from the jungle and try to housebreak him and turn him into a pet. He may learn to sheathe his claws in order to beg a few scraps off the dinner table, and you may teach him to be a beast of burden, but it doesn't pay to forget that he'll always be what he was born: a wild animal.
  • p. 74

• Evolution shows that in the long run, if the superior mixes with the inferior, the product is halfway between, and inferior to what you started with in the original superior group—in other words, mongrelized.
  • p. 76

• I've never accused the Jews of being incapable of performing. As a matter of fact, I think there’s a good chance they’re superior to everybody else in terms of actual mental capabilities. I think the average Jew is probably sharper intellectually than the average gentile, because for years and years he’s had to live by his wits. Consequently, there has evolved a race of Jews who are more agile mentally than the rest of us.
  • p. 78

• Jews talk a lot about God. But actually their god, just like Marx said, is money. Cash!
  • p. 78

• I use the term "Communist Jews" in exactly the same sense that I would say "Italian gangsters." Most Italians are not gangsters, but everybody knows that the Mafia is mostly Italians. Well, my experience is that communism is as Jewish as the Mafia is Italian. It’s a fact that almost all of the convicted spies for communism have been atheist Jews like the Rosenbergs. And international communism was invented by the Jew Karl Marx and has since been led mostly by Jews—like Trotsky.
  • p. 79

• In Germany, Hitler produced a local "lab experiment"; he provided me with an ideology in the same way that Marx provided one for Lenin. My task is to turn this ideology into a world movement.
  • p. 80

• In the first place, I don't believe in democracy. In the second place, neither did our white forefathers. I believe, as they did, in a republic—an authoritarian republic with a limited electorate—just like the one the writers of our Constitution meant this country to be. When these white Christian patriots sat down to write the Declaration of Independence, there were no black citizens for them to worry about.
  • p. 82

• Any man who didn't vigorously enjoy normal sex could never be a National Socialist.
  • p. 82

• 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.
  • p. 154

• Being prepared to die is one of the great secrets of living. I know I'm going to go—probably in some violent manner: the only question is when and how.
  • p. 154

1967

• I like Jews, I'll be very sorry when we've killed the last of them.
  • Fred C. Shapiro, "The Last Word (We Hope) On George Lincoln Rockwell", Esquire, February 1967, p. 101.
• When I was in the advertising game, we used to use nude women. Now I use the swastika and storm troopers. You use what brings them in.
  • Fred C. Shapiro, "The Last Word (We Hope) On George Lincoln Rockwell", Esquire, February 1967, p. 103. quoted in Simonelli 1999, p. 53, quoting

White Self-Hate: Master-Stroke Of The Enemy

Published in The Rockwell Report, Feb-March 1967

• 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.
  • p. 13

• This time we'll hate, alright - but we'll hate the ENEMY--the vicious gang of colored scum attackers and Jewish-Communist traitors--rather than one part of our own people hating another part for the benefit of the Jews and their army of SCUM!
  • p. 13

• I care not what religion, club, area or class you come from, nor what bit of colored cloth you wave as a flag. WE are ALL under deadly attack by colored hordes which outnumber us more than seven to one, led by a filthy Jewish, Communist conspiracy!
  • p. 13

• White Man, let us stand together to secure the survival of your people and my people, for they are one and the same--they are our beloved, miraculous, wonderful, blessed and MASTERFUL WHITE RACE!
  • p. 13

White Power

page numbers from 2016 edition

• Even Rome, during its decline, never reached the depths to which America has already sunk.
  • p. 29

• It is not the evil itself which is horrifying about our times—it is the way we not only tolerate evil, but have made a cult of positively worshipping weakness, depravity, rottenness and evil itself. It is not the death rattle in the throat of Western civilization which is surprising; it is the fact that millions of Americans believe that the death rattle is a beautiful song!
  • p. 31

• Today’s liberal intellectuals, who pride themselves on scientific method and being “broadminded," are the most narrow-minded, self-righteous and hate-filled bigots in the history of humanity. No primitive tribe worshiping with its witch-doctor was ever more vicious in its hatred and suppression of heretics than today’s Marxist intellectuals, anti-racists and liberals.
  • p. 51

• 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!
  • p. 128

• The color of your skin is your uniform in this ultimate battle for the survival of the West.
  • p. 250

• 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.
  • pp. 334–335

• LOVE, the natural, healthy kind, is indeed what makes the world go round, and is the most beautiful, holy miracle we ever see here on this earth.
  BUT WITHOUT A DEADLY HATE OF THAT WHICH THREATENS WHAT WE LOVE, LOVE IS AN EMPTY WORD, A CATCHWORD FOR HIPPIES, QUEERS, AND COWARDS.
  • p. 349

• What Hitler gave the world, as National Socialism is, in a sense, only a modern form of the ancient, natural “tribal law”, the prescription for happy and healthy group living given by the Great Spirit to all living creatures, including man.
  • p. 357

• Christianity, for instance, is a far higher thing than its rituals, the words of its prayers or any of its creeds. It is a SPIRITUAL STRIVING toward the believer’s ideals of Spiritual Perfection. National Socialism is the same sort of striving toward ever higher and higher levels here on this earth.
  • p. 358

• As I have pointed out many times, no man can live happily, successfully, and productively as a lonely, bitter individual at war with all his fellows. Every one of us has a deep need for the warmth and love of his group, of those in his biological family of people. Modern man has lost that feeling of group warmth, loyalty and love, and the result is the chaos and spiritual emptiness we see all around us in this disintegrating Western society.
  • pp. 361–362

• You're a slave in your own country, White Man. Each year you get to keep less of the fruits of your labor; each year it gets more difficult to carry the burden the aliens have placed upon you; each year the cheap labor of aliens makes your future less secure; each year you retreat a few steps more into the world of slavery.
  Where will it all end? I'LL TELL YOU –­ it will end with the complete and total annihilation of "Whitey."
  • p. 366

Attributed

• Nazism says that women are absolutely equal to men. But they're different. And thank God for the difference.
  • Unclear origin, does not seem to appear in any of his books or magazines, but appears attributed by Rocky Suhayda's successor American Nazi Party [1]

• If [the Jews] think Hitler was rough on them, that was because they have not yet experienced Rockwell.
  • Attributed to him by Frederick J. Simonelli in American Fuehrer, p. 22, dated 1963

• Destiny smiles most on those who fight the hardest.
  • Attributed to him by Frederick J. Simonelli in American Fuehrer, p. 14, dated 1966

Misattributed

• We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.
  • The "14 Words" is the most popular white nationalist slogan in the world. However, the slogan was coined by David Lane.

Quotes about Rockwell

In alphabetical order by author.

• Friends of mine are always showing me articles. "Look at what this bigoted bastard wrote!" And then I dug something. Liberals will buy anything a bigot writes. And they'll really support it. George Lincoln Rockwell, the head of the American Nazi Party, perhaps is a very knowledgeable businessman with no political convictions whatsoever. He gets three bucks a head and works the mass rallies of nothing but angry Jews, shaking their fists and wondering why there are so many Jews there. And he probably has two followers who are deaf. They think the swastika is an Aztec symbol.
  • Lenny Bruce, "The Arrest of Lenny Bruce"(PDF), The Realist, Issue 41, June 1963, p. 29

• This quixotic quality of Rockwell's movement, with equal measures of fantastic daring and pathological resentment, has enabled the racist Right to make a hero of him, something of a martyr (assassinated by one of his own followers, no less). But there is something about Rockwell's story— about his persistence in his beliefs and in his political activism—that seems heroic in a peculiar but genuine way, if only because one has to grant a man some measure of respect for sticking to his guns no matter what and for refusing to submit to the belief of the dominant mainstream that he was crazy because he adopted execrable political ideas (psychotherapy has sometimes become a form of Stalinism in democratic, technological countries). And there is something tragic about Rockwell, a man of no small intelligence, no small ambition, no small abilities, who could waste himself so thoroughly in something so grotesque and so mean-spirited.
  • Gerald Early, "The White Man's Burden", Books & Culture (2000)

• George Lincoln Rockwell is an egocentric and a chronic failure who created the shabby, small-time enterprise which he named the American Nazi Party in order to abate his tormenting ambitions to achieve fame. Carrying the war-tattered banner of a vanquished enemy the world would like to forget, Rockwell leads his heterogeneous "army" against an imaginary "Zionist conspiracy." Distasteful costumes, contemptible slogans, and disruptive tactics have brought national attention to Rockwell, inflating him and his group far beyond their due.
  • Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI Monograph(PDF), American Nazi Party, June 1965, pg 10

• Although it may not be evident from the transcript, Rockwell is a master at appealing to man's baser emotions. He is an exceptionally forceful speaker and his phrases ring with conviction. That his "facts" may be cockeyed, that his logic may be nonexistent, that his delusions of grandeur may be colossal, that, as has been chanted at some of his rallies, he may be "Sick! Sick! Sick!," is all beside the point. The fact is that George Lincoln Rockwell is a formidable and frightening figure. Newspapers that continue to portray him as a harmless clown are doing our country a great disservice. I was angry for the mistaken impression they had given me. It seemed clear to me that, given the kind of panic that gripped the nation during the McCarthy era only ten years ago, George Lincoln Rockwell could rise to power. The old alarmist phrase "It can happen here!" kept running through my mind and I had just met the man who could make it happen.
  • Ralph Ginzburg (February 1964), "The Man Who Thinks Goldwater Is a Communist". Fact. Vol. 1, no. 1. p. 45
• We must appreciate the irony of Rockwell, an agnostic, using biblical allusions to promote Hitler, an anti-Semitic Odinist, as spiritual heir to Jesus of Nazareth, a radical Jewish rabbi.
  • Frederick J. Simonelli, American Fuehrer, 1999, p. 121

• Without question Lincoln is the loudest talker on the campus, the originator of more weird theories than anyone else, and the Academy's outstanding artist. A memorable noise (whether or not it is pleasant is up to you) from Sturtevant Home is Lincoln Rockwell playing (?) sweet (?) music on the ivories of a nearby piano. He is the chief lover of classical music in the school; a champion rodent trainer, and an accomplished humorist. The two Rockwells started a new communication system here which, because of some arch-fiend, had only a brief existence. Rockwell is like his comedian father—always on hand with a joke or always ready with a kind word. He is headed for Harvard, they say, and we have every assurance of his being successful because of his incomparable personality and originality.
  • Green Parrot, the Hebron Academy yearbook, 1938. Also partially quoted in Schmaltz 2000

• George Lincoln Rockwell's talent was that he knew what would make people hate him. [...] [He] had an inordinate capacity for finding out what would make people the angriest and exploiting it.
  • quoted in Simonelli 1999, p. 53, quoting "A Master at Stirring Hate," St. Petersburg Times, 27 August 1967, p. 7A.

External links

• Encyclopedic article on George Lincoln Rockwell on Wikipedia
• Media related to George Lincoln Rockwell on Wikimedia Commons