He who votes does not have power. He who counts the votes has power.

Nobody respects a country with a poor army, but everybody respects a country with a good army. I raise my toast to the Finnish army

Each position, each metre of the Soviet territory must be stubbornly defended, to the last drop of blood. We must cling to every inch of Soviet soil and defend it to the end!

Our new election system will spur on all institutions and organizations and will force them to improve their work.

Have you or haven't you built a good school? Haven't you improved living conditions? Aren't you a bureaucrat? Have you helped to make our labor more effective, our life more cultured? Such will be the criteria with which millions of voters will approach candidates, casting away those who are unfit, striking them off lists, advancing better ones, nominating them for elections.

You do not lament the loss of hair of one who has been beheaded.

It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes.