💬 Quotes

"Eine Verteidigung ohne alles Angreifen ist wie ein Schild ohne Schwert."

"No matter what one thinks of Bolshevism, it is undeniable that the Russian Revolution is one of the great events of human history, and the rise of the Bolsheviki is a phenomenon of worldwide importance."

"The people—the workers, the soldiers, and the peasants—had taken power into their own hands, and nothing could stop them now."

"Instead of being a destructive force, the Revolution was constructive. It was building a new world out of the wreckage of the old."

"History is a strange texture; it is woven by the blind passions of masses, but also by the conscious will of men who dare to dream."

"To understand the Russian Revolution, one must realize that the common man was not merely fighting for bread, but for human dignity and self-determination."

"There are times in history when the impulse of the masses becomes an irresistible torrent, sweeping away centuries of oppression in a matter of days."

"Damn the United States! I wish I may never hear of the United States again!"

"For your country, boy, and for that flag, never dream a word against it, but remember that though it may go wrong sometimes, you are responsible to it still."

"For fifty years that man had never been able to utter the word 'home.'"

"The man without a country was a man without a self, a ghost haunting the decks of warships where he was neither guest nor prisoner."

"He knew our politics, our commerce, and our growing cities better than we did ourselves, yet he was an outcast from the very soil he studied."