Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Some are bound to die young. By dying young a person stays young in people's memory. If he burns brightly before he dies, his brightness shines for all time.

What would things been like [in Russia] if during periods of mass arrests people had not simply sat there, paling with terror at every bang on the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but understood they had nothing to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people?

Why can't you understand? The stars fall down now and then. The gaps have to be filled.

One should not ascribe the evil deeds of individual leaders or political regimes to an innate fault of the Russian people and their country.

Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.

... but it is human to be outraged by injustice, even to the point of courting destruction!