Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood.
JOSEPH STALINGreat Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood.
JOSEPH STALINOf all the treasures a state can possess, the human lives of its citizens are for us the most precious.
JOSEPH STALINThe press must grow day in and day out – it is our Party’s sharpest and most powerful weapon.
JOSEPH STALINDo you remember the tsar? Well, I‘m like a tsar.
JOSEPH STALINIdeas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.
JOSEPH STALINPolitical power does not rest with those who cast votes; political power rests with those who count votes.
JOSEPH STALINThe death of one man is tragic, but the death of thousands is statistic.
JOSEPH STALINThe only real power comes out of a long rifle.
JOSEPH STALINIn the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
JOSEPH STALINHe who votes does not have power. He who counts the votes has power.
JOSEPH STALINWhen you chop wood, splinters fly.
JOSEPH STALINTake some exercise, try to recover the look of a human being.
JOSEPH STALINThere 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.
JOSEPH STALINArtillery is the god of war.
JOSEPH STALINIf any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a ‘peace conference,’ you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.
JOSEPH STALINWe are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or they will crush us.
JOSEPH STALIN