...a great army of the proletarian party [must be] prepared to smash the reactionary forces and to clear the way for the advanced forces of society.

Capitalism, in its imperialist phase, is a system which considers war to be a legitimate instrument for settling international disputes, a legal method in fact, if not in law.

American democracy and the Soviet system may peacefully exist side by side and compete with each other. But one cannot evolve into the other.

History shows that when any state intends to make war against another state, even not adjacent, it begins to seek for frontiers across which it can reach the frontiers of the state it wants to attack. Usually, the aggressive state finds such frontiers.

Of course, Soviet people would like to see the face of surrounding states changed, but that is the business of the surrounding states.

War may break out unexpectedly. Wars are not declared, nowadays. They simply start.

It would be quite wrong to hold the Soviet government responsible for the activities of American Communists.