Of all the treasures a state can possess, the human lives of its citizens are for us the most precious.
JOSEPH STALINThere are no fortresses that Bolsheviks cannot storm.
More Joseph Stalin Quotes
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Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.
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He who votes does not have power. He who counts the votes has power.
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Our new Soviet constitution will, in my opinion, be the most democratic constitution of all those existing in the world.
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Real liberty exists only there where exploitation has been annihilated, where no oppression of some peoples by others exists, where there is no unemployment and pauperism, where a person does not tremble because tomorrow he may lose his job, home and bread.
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American Communists have the opportunity to preach freely their ideas. It would be absolutely wrong to hold the Soviet government responsible for activities of the American Communists.
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This is impossible to predict. War may break out unexpectedly.
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Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.
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In the future, there will be fewer but better Russians.
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To choose one’s victims, to prepare one’s plan minutely, to slake an implacable vengeance, and then to go to bed… There is nothing sweeter in the world.
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Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.
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The Red Army and Navy and the whole Soviet people must fight for every inch of Soviet soil, fight to the last drop of blood for our towns and villages…onward, to victory!
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When there’s a person, there’s a problem. When there’s no person, there’s no problem.
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It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes.
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You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.
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Nobody respects a country with a poor army, but everybody respects a country with a good army. I raise my toast to the Finnish army.
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