When you chop wood, splinters fly

Farmers present by themselves the basic force of the national movement. Without farmers there can be no strong national movement. This is what we mean when we say that the nationalist question, is actually, the farmers' question.

Words are one thing - deeds something entirely different. Fine words are a mask to cover shady deeds. A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.

This war is not as in the past: whoever occupies a territory also imposes his own social system.

Nowadays wars are not declared. They simply start.

Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.

We [U.S.S.R. and U.S.A.] can exist peacefully together if we don't indulge in too much mutual fault-finding in all kinds of trifles.