Joseph Stalin

The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do.

If 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.

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.

The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.

Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.

You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.

It takes a brave man to be a coward in the Red Army.