We built this [socialistic] society not for the curbing of personal liberty, but in order that human personalities should really feel free.

Bukharin's a swine and surely worse than a swine because he thinks it below his dignity to write a couple of lines.

The production of souls is more important than the production of tanks.... And therefore I raise my glass to you, writers, the engineers of the human soul.

If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.

There are on occasions, as we know, when resources are abundant, but they are expended so incompetently that the advantage is nullified.

[American Communist Party] legally exists in the U.S.A., it nominates its candidates in the elections, including Presidential elections.

There is no doubt that the absence of a second front in Europe considerably relieves the position of the German Army, nor can there be any doubt that the appearance of a second front on the Continent of Europe - and undoubtedly this will appear in the near future - will essentially relieve the position of our armies to the detriment of the German Army.