I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
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.