Joseph Stalin

The only way to defend the Soviet Union is to be prepared for war.

The only way to ensure peace is to be strong.

The only way to achieve victory is to be united.

The only way to overcome difficulties is to be persistent.

The only way to learn is by doing.

The only way to succeed is to work hard.

The only way to be free is to fight for it.

The only way to make history is to be bold.

The only way to build a better world is to change it.

The only way to understand life is to live it.

Death solves all problems - no man, no problem.

Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?

The press must grow day in and day out — it is our Party's powerful weapon.

The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.

History shows that there have been but few strikes which have not been broken or rendered ineffective by spies, provocateurs and traitors in the pay of the police.

To choose one's victims, to prepare one's plans minutely, to slake an implacable vengeance, and then to go to bed... There is nothing more convenient.

The State is not abolished, it dies away.

Real freedom does not exist anywhere, but only the illusion of it.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

Mankind is divided into rich and poor, high and low, master and slave. The great question of the age is whether the down trodden masses are to continue in their misery or whether they are to rise and throw off the yoke.