You say dabble in politics, I don't know what that is. You say stand up and talk for my rights - I know what that is.

The American president increasingly used his influence to create conflicts, intensify existing conflicts, and, above all, to keep conflicts from being resolved peacefully. For years this man looked for a dispute anywhere in the world, but preferably in Europe, that he could use to create political entanglements with American economic obligations to one of the contending sides, which would then steadily involve America in the conflict and thus divert attention from his own confused domestic economic policies.

What luck, for governments, that the people are stupid!

For I must not measure the speech of a statesman to his people... but by the effect it exerts on the people.

Best wishes for your personal well-being as well as for the prosperous future of the peoples of the friendly Soviet Union.

In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.