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

Ah, these diplomats! What chatterboxes! There's only one way to shut them up - cut them down with machine guns. Bulganin, go and get me one!

Artillery is the god of war.

It was necessary, temporarily, to limit certain requirements, accumulate necessary means, strain forces. We acted precisely in this way and built a socialist society.

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.

Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.

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