"Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything."
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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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"Quanity has it's own quality."
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"There are no fortresses that Bolsheviks cannot storm."
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"Personel selection is decisive. People are our most valuable capital."
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"As you can see, even when [Adolf] Hitler desires to speak for peace, he cannot dispense with threats. This is symptomatic."
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"When one man dies it is a tragedy, when thousands die it's statistics."
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"A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron."
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"The situation is that in Germany capitalism has remained, classes and class struggle have remained which all the same will break into the open, which includes also the field of struggle of parties representing opposing classes just as it broke through in, let us say, Spain."
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"Ours is a just cause; victory will be ours!"
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"Writers are the engineers of human souls."
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"It is difficult to say which is more menacing. But both of [points of war danger -Japan and Germany] exist and both are smoldering. In comparison with these two principal focal points of the war danger, the Italo-Ethiopian war represents an episode."
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"To assert that we desire to bring about revolution in other countries, by interfering with their lives, is to speak of something which does not exist and which we never preach."
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"Nowadays wars are not declared. They simply start."
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"Revolution, the substitution of one social system for another, has always been a struggle, a painful and a cruel struggle, a life and death struggle."
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"The Soviet system will not evolve into American democracy or vice-versa."
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"Have you or haven't you built a good school? Haven't you improved living conditions? Aren't you a bureaucrat? Have you helped to make our labor more effective, our life more cultured? Such will be the criteria with which millions of voters will approach candidates, casting away those who are unfit, striking them off lists, advancing better ones, nominating them for elections."
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"The people will always attempt to find the positive aspects of all circumstances, which, in themselves, are not susceptible to danger."
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"There are on occasions, as we know, when resources are abundant, but they are expended so incompetently that the advantage is nullified."
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"We secured peace for our country for one and a half years, as well as an opportunity of preparing our forces for defense if fascist Germany risked attacking our country in defiance of the pact. This was a definite gain to our country and a loss for fascist Germany."
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