Joseph Stalin

"The only real power comes from a gun."

"Progress is inevitable."

"Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything."

"The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to use its means in its defense."

"We are masters of our own fate."

"The theory of Marxism is a complete, rational conception of the world."

"To choose one's victims, to prepare one's plans minutely, to slake an implacable vengeance, and then to go to bed."

"We must have faith in the future."

"The world will never be conquered by ideas alone."

"A nation which has ceased to read is a nation ceases to think."

"Education is the most powerful weapon against poverty."

"The strength of an army is its unity."

"Work ennobles the soul."

"The intelligentsia of the whole world is divided into two camps."

"We accept all men in our belief in their own happiness."

"No amount of political freedom will satisfy a hungry man."

"Science is of the utmost importance in the life of society."

"To destroy the enemy we must have popular support."

"The Soviet people have never yielded and will never yield to force."

"In the course of history one must always seek to advance."

"The workers' state must do everything to help in the building of socialism."

"Coexistence cannot and should not be confused with passive acceptance of evil."

"The good of the many outweighs the good of the few."

"Those who fail to plan, plan to fail."

"We do not have deviations; we have a correct line."

"The State is the instrument of the proletariat."

"A revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing there is."

"The Russian people are peaceful by nature."

"Culture must be national in form and socialist in content."

"We love our people and our people love us."