The demands of internal growth are incomparably more important to us...than the need for any external expansion of our power.

...skepticism can never provide firm ground under a man's feet. And perhaps, after all, we need firm ground.

One can build the Empire State Building, discipline the Prussian army, make a state hierarchy mightier than God, yet fail to overcome the unaccountable superiority of certain human beings.

If we could all take a sober look at our history, then we would no longer see this nostalgic attitude to the Soviet past that predominates among the less affected part of our society.

It takes a fool to rush off to war!

Pride grows in the human heart like lard on a pig.

There are defendants whom the judges are afraid of.