It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes.
JOSEPH STALINIn the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
More Joseph Stalin Quotes
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You do not lament the loss of hair of one who has been beheaded.
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I trust no one, not even myself.
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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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Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.
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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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Words are one thing – deeds something entirely different. Fine words are a mask to cover shady deeds. A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.
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I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.
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There are no fortresses that Bolsheviks cannot storm.
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We do not want a single foot of foreign territory; but of our territory we shall not surrender a single inch to anyone.
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I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this – who will count the votes, and how.
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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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We Marxists believe that revolution will occur in other countries, as well. But it will occur at a time when it will be considered possible or necessary by revolutionaries of those countries.
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Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.
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Voters decide nothing. Vote counters decide everything!
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There is not, nor should there be, an irreconcilable contrast between the individual and the collective, between the interests of an individual person and the interests of the collective.
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