Quote #2
If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a 'peace conference,' you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and aeroplanes.
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- We disagreed with Zinoviev and Kamenev because we knew that the policy of amputation was fraught with great dangers for the Party, that the…
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- If the opposition disarms, all is well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.
- We do not want a single foot of foreign territory; but of our territory we shall not surrender a single inch to anyone.
- Anti-Semitism, as an extreme form of racial chauvinism, is the most dangerous vestige of cannibalism.