I am in favor of deliberately spreading methodically prepared bacteria among people and animals -- mildew ... to destroy the harvests, anthrax to destroy horses and livestock, and the plague, in order to kill not only entire armies, but also the inhabitants of large regions.

The belief that security can be obtained by throwing a small state to the wolves is a fatal delusion.

...Have the stresses of war been as bad to you personally as carrying through the policy of Collective Farms?

What a fool I have been!

When a new book appears one should read an old one.

Arm yourselves, and be ye men of valor, and be in readiness for the conflict; for it is better for us to perish in battle than to look upon the outrage of our nation and our altar.

There is in the act of preparing, the moment you start caring.