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

To slacken the tempo...would mean falling behind. And those who fall behind get beaten.

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

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

We desire to give the Soviet people absolute liberty of voting for those they desire to elect, those whom they trust to ensure their interests.

Education is a weapon the effect of which is determined by the hands which wield it, by who is to be struck down.

As soon as there are no more classes, as soon as boundaries between classes are effaced, as soon as only a few but non-fundamental differences between various strata of the socialist society remain - there can no longer be nourishing ground for the formation of parties struggling among themselves.