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

It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than it is to apply them.

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed, to forget the feuds of a thousand years and work for the larger harmonies on which the future depends.

Politics is like waking up in the morning. You never know whose head you'll find on the pillow.

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

It is bad for a nation when it is without faith.

...every offensive lost its force as it proceeded. It was like throwing a bucket of water over the floor. It first rushed forward, then soaked forward, and finally stopped altogether until another bucket could be brought.