Each position, each metre of the Soviet territory must be stubbornly defended, to the last drop of blood. We must cling to every inch of Soviet soil and defend it to the end!

Everybody has a right to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege.

It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes.

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.

Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood.

This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.

Education is a weapon the effect of which is determined by the hands which wield it, by who is to be struck down.

The death of one man is tragic, but the death of thousands is statistic.

When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.

When there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem. Josef Stalin

To choose one's victims, to prepare one's plan minutely, to slake an implacable vengeance, and then to go to bed... There is nothing sweeter in the world.

Live in your dream. Refuse to wake up until it is completely over. Then dream again.

The same president who has insisted that core moralism drives him has brought America to its lowest moral standing in history.

The first thing that a person finds in life and the last to which he holds out his hand, and the most precious that he possess, even if he does not realize it, is family life.

More of the same will just produce more of the same - less competitiveness, less growth, fewer jobs.

I'm all in favor of NATO.

The students always, always surprise me.

For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided.

Literature is the memory of humanity.

Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.

Whenever a number of individuals have a common name, we assume them to have also a corresponding idea or form.