It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes.
JOSEPH STALINIdeas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.
More Joseph Stalin Quotes
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It’s not the people who vote that count. It’s the people who count the votes.
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Our Soviet society is socialist because private ownership of factories, plants, land, banks and means of transportation has been abolished in our country, and replaced by public ownership.
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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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A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.
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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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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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Of all the treasures a state can possess, the human lives of its citizens are for us the most precious.
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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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The only real power comes out of a long rifle.
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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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There are no fortresses that Bolsheviks cannot storm.
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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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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 trust no one, not even myself.
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The press must grow day in and day out – it is our Party’s sharpest and most powerful weapon.
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