In a fight you don't stop to choose your cudgels.

Even now we feel that Stalin was devoted to Communism, he was a Marxist, this cannot and should not be denied.

If you don't like us, don't accept our invitations and don't invite us to come to see you. Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you.

Historians are dangerous people. They are capable of upsetting everything.

I worked at a factory owned by Germans, at coal pits owned by Frenchmen, and at a chemical plant owned by Belgians. There I discovered something about capitalists. They are all alike, whatever the nationality. All they wanted from me was the most work for the least money that kept me alive. So I became a communist.

The two most powerful nations of the world had been squared off against each other, each with its finger on the button. You'd have thought that war was inevitable. But both sides showed that if the desire to avoid war is strong enough, even the most pressing dispute can be solved by compromise. And a compromise over Cuba was indeed found.

What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children?