Kliment Voroshilov quotes
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“Whoever can lift a rifle, should have one.”
-- Kliment VoroshilovSource : "Epoch's End". Book by Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay, translated from French by Hirendranath Mookherjee (p. 149), 1945.
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“I personally believe that war is highly unlikely.”
-- Kliment VoroshilovSource : "Forging Stalin's Army: Marshal Tukhachevsky and the Politics of Military Innovation". Book by Sally W. Stoecke, p. 57, 1999.
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“It was necessary to close the front against Germany and that it (victory) depended on us whether it was to be closed or not.”
-- Kliment VoroshilovSource : "The unmaking of Adolf Hitler". Book by Eugene Davidson, p. 377, 2004.
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“If we enjoy the benefits of peace, it is only because we have an excellent armed force and a fine socialist economy. Let us exert all efforts so that our further development may be strong and mighty, so that our numerous enemies may think well and long before they decide to attack our fatherland, and so that if they attack, they will quickly regret it.”
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“The Soviet Union, true to the Leninist principles of respect for the rights and national independence of all peoples great or small, has always been and is guided in its relations with other countries by the principles of mutual respect for territorial integrity and sovereignty, non-aggression, non-intervention in each other's internal affairs, equality and mutual benefits, peaceful coexistence and economic cooperation.”
-- Kliment VoroshilovSource : "The Nineteen Days: A Broadcaster's Account of the Hungarian Revolution". Book by George R. Urban, 1957.
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“Voroshilov was a striking figure, with a great deal of influence among the workers, so that the degree of influence of the committee on the workers and its success as regards recruitment depended primarily on him.”
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“Voroshilov was a hard-riding, hard-drinking military crony of civil-war days.”
-- Kliment Voroshilov
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“One must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one is thinking of firing it.”
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Source : Chris Burden, Anne Ayres, Paul Schimmel, Newport Harbor Art Museum (1988). “Chris Burden: a twenty-year survey”
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“Two of my favorite things are my steering wheel and my Remington rifle.”
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“I don't have time every day to put on make up. I need that time to clean my rifle.”
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“Justice should be cheap but judges expensive.”
Source : "Uncommon Law". Book by A. P. Herbert, 1935.
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