Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

Our country and all the other socialist countries want peace; so do the peoples of all the countries of the world. The only ones who crave war and do not want peace are certain monopoly capitalist groups in a handful of imperialist countries that depend on aggression for their profits.

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

The weeds of socialism are better than the crops of capitalism.

I voted for you during your last election.

Soldiers are the foundation of an army; unless they are imbued with a progressive political spirit, and unless such a spirit is fostered through progressive political work, it will be impossible to achieve genuine unity between officers and men, impossible to arouse their enthusiasm for the War of Resistance to the full, and impossible to provide an excellent basis for the most effective use of all our technical equipment and tactics.

Our attitude towards ourselves should be 'to be satiable in learning' and towards others 'to be tireless in teaching.