This paper, by its very length, defends itself from ever being read.
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
Personally, I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.
Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.
To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.
For myself I am an optimist – it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. But perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.
You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.