In military science there is a principle more important than "Forward": it is that the task should be proportionate to the means.

A strong man never loses his head in defeat or despondency.

A great disaster had befallen Russia: Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened.

There is something predetermined in the mutual attraction between Germany and Russia. Otherwise, this attraction would not have survived two ghastly World Wars.

Whenever the tissue of life is woven of legalistic relationships, this creates an atmosphere of spiritual mediocrity that paralyzes a person's noblest impulses.

When Russia started to regain some of its strength as an economy and as a state, the West's reaction - perhaps a subconscious one, based on erstwhile fears - was panic.

Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right.