The Red Army and Navy and the whole Soviet people must fight for every inch of Soviet soil, fight to the last drop of blood for our towns and villages...onward, to victory!

We built [socialistic society] for the sake of real personal liberty, liberty without quotation marks.

Artillery is the god of war.

No revolution can be made with silk gloves.

There is not, nor should there be, an irreconcilable contrast between the individual and the collective, between the interests of an individual person and the interests of the collective.

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

I admit that I do not recall the speeches of Comrades [Earl] Browder and [Samuel] Darcy. I do not even recall of what they spoke. It is possible that they said something of this nature. But it was not the Soviet people who created the American Communist Party. It was created by Americans.