My adversaries… applied the one means that wins the easiest victory over reason: terror and force.

In this line, Hitler casts himself as a victim of intimidation, claiming that his opponents relied on “terror and force” rather than rational argument. The phrasing implies a contrast between “reason” (which he implicitly associates with his own position) and coercion (assigned to his adversaries), a rhetorical move that seeks to delegitimize critics while legitimizing retaliatory harshness as self-defense. In the broader pattern of his propaganda, such claims function to justify political violence and authoritarian measures by presenting them as responses to an allegedly prior campaign of coercion. The statement also reveals an instrumental view of politics: victory is framed not as persuasion but as domination through fear.