Once you pledge, don't hedge.

Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think. Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge where there is no river.

My arms are up to the elbows in blood. That is the most terrible thing that lies in my soul.

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

You Americans are so gullible. No, you won't accept communism outright, but we'll keep feeding you small doses of socialism until you'll finally wake up and find you already have communism. We won't have to fight you. We'll so weaken your economy until you'll fall like overripe fruit into our hands.

One of the major principles is that Soviet literature must be inseverably linked with the policy of the Communist party

Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!