In war I would deal with the Devil and his grandmother

This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.

Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood.

Our society consists exclusively of free working people of cities and villages, workers, peasants, intelligentsia. Each of these strata may have its special interests and express them in numerous existing organizations.

Obviously these [white-guard] emigres enjoy the right of asylum existing also in the U.S. So far as we are concerned we would never tolerate a single terrorist in our territory regardless against whom he would contemplate his crimes. Apparently the right of asylum receives broader interpretation in the U.S.A. than in our country.

Our Red Army now needs IL-2 aircraft like the air it breathes, like the bread it eats.

Of all the treasures a state can possess, the human lives of its citizens are for us the most precious.