Die, but do not retreat.
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.
This war is not an ordinary war. It is the war of the entire Russian people. Not only to eliminate the danger hanging over our heads, but to aid all people groaning under the yoke of Fascism
Obviously these [white-guard] emigres enjoy the right of asylum existing also in the U.S. So far as we are concerned we would never tolerate a single terrorist in our territory regardless against whom he would contemplate his crimes. Apparently the right of asylum receives broader interpretation in the U.S.A. than in our country.
By May, 1st, 1937, there should not be one single church left within the borders of Soviet Russia, and the idea of God will have been banished from the Soviet Union as a remnant of the Middle Ages, which has been used for the purpose of oppressing the working classes.
Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don’t let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas?
We don’t let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns?
If you foul up, tell the President and correct it fast. Delay only compounds mistakes.
It is not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that make horseraces.
It’s not the time to look for excuses.
A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.
If I was on the air and was just kind of a plain-vanilla personality that took the safe road and the safe way trying to please all of the people all of the time, I’d been gone in two weeks.
Roaming through the jungle of ‘oohs’ and ‘ahs’, searching for a more agreeable noise, I live a life of primitivity with the mind of a child and an unquenchable thirst for sharps and flats.
If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
In Nevada, for a time, the lawyer, the editor, the banker, the chief desperado, the chief gambler, and the saloon-keeper occupied the same level of society, and it was the highest.
You need to listen to your body because your body is listening to you.
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
I think us bad b*tc*es is a gift from God.
I don’t write letters anymore.
There it is: it doesn’t make any difference who we are or what we are, there’s always somebody to look down on! somebody to hold in light esteem, somebody to be indifferent about.
It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You’d wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?
You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past — whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.
