I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
History is written by the victors.
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.
Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.