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.

For instance, our country wanted to effect a revolution, and did effect it, and now we are building a new classless society.

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

The death of one man is tragic, but the death of thousands is statistic.

History shows that when a state is intent upon making war against another state, even though not adjacent, it begins to seek frontiers across which it could reach the frontiers of the state which it desires to attack. Usually, the aggressive state finds that frontier.

In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.

Remember how the first world war broke out. It broke out as a result of the desire to redivide the world.