Nikita Khrushchev

"Money is the master's tool; control who controls it."

"Health of a nation reflects health of its people."

"Adventure requires risk; safety requires stagnation."

"Imagination unshackled creates the impossible."

"History judges those who shape it."

"The people are not going to tolerate this forever. We must reform or perish."

"A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on."

"The Virgin Lands campaign will make the Soviet Union the breadbasket of the world."

"We will bury you—not with weapons, but with our economic and social system."

"Call it what you like, but Stalinism was a necessary evil for building Soviet power."

"The peasant must understand that collectivization serves the greater good of all."

"De-Stalinization is not betrayal; it is the path to true communism."

"One cannot live by ideology alone; people need bread and hope."

"Peaceful coexistence is not surrender—it is a strategy for survival."

"The thaw has begun in Soviet literature and art; let creativity flourish."

"A leader must sometimes make unpopular decisions for the nation's future."

"Science and technology will determine the victor in the ideological struggle."

"The Hungarian uprising was a counterrevolutionary plot, not a people's movement."

"We must educate the youth to be true believers in communism's promise."

"Forget the past; build the future with the strength of young hands."

"Bureaucrats strangle progress; we must shake up the system."

"The Cuban missile crisis taught us the price of brinkmanship."

"Reform within the party is necessary to prevent revolution from without."

"Corn will solve our agricultural crisis and prove socialism's superiority."

"A man with convictions can move mountains; a man without them moves nothing."

"The West talks of freedom while enslaving workers to profit."

"Love of country must transcend love of self."

"Time is the judge of all ambitions and the graveyard of all failures."

"We temper steel; we must also temper the human spirit through hardship."

"If you cannot convince a man, confuse him."