To choose one's victims, to prepare one's plan minutely, to slake an implacable vengeance, and then to go to bed... There is nothing sweeter in the world.
Joseph StalinIf any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a 'peace conference,' you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.
Joseph StalinWe built this [socialistic] society not for the curbing of personal liberty, but in order that human personalities should really feel free.
Joseph StalinAmerican democracy and the Soviet system can exist simultaneously and compete peacefully. But one cannot develop into the other.
Joseph Stalin