Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers. Nikita Khrushchev More Quotes by Nikita Khrushchev More Quotes From Nikita Khrushchev We do not have to invade the United States, we will destroy you from within. Nikita Khrushchev unitedunited-statesstates You Americans are so gullible. No, you won't accept communism outright, but we'll keep feeding you small doses of socialism until you'll finally wake up and find you already have communism. We won't have to fight you. We'll so weaken your economy until you'll fall like overripe fruit into our hands. Nikita Khrushchev fightingacceptancefall The press is our chief ideological weapon. Nikita Khrushchev call-of-dutymedia-controlweapons The John Birch Society is Communism's greatest ally. With its help we will divide and confuse the American people until they have lost faith in their Government, their nation has ceased to be a major world power, and their country is ripe for revolution. Nikita Khrushchev governmentcountrypeople I can prophecy that your grandchildren in America will live under socialism -- Our firm conviction is that sooner or later Capitalism will give way to Socialism. Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you. Nikita Khrushchev grandchildrengivingamerica The United States will eventually fly the Communist red flag…The American people will hoist it themselves. Nikita Khrushchev red-flagseducationpeople "Freedom" in capitalist countries exists only for those who possess money and who consequently hold power. Nikita Khrushchev politicswisdomcountry Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think. Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge where there is no river. Nikita Khrushchev bridgesriversthinking I once said, 'We will bury you,' and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you. Nikita Khrushchev troublesaidclass The United States now sleeps under a Soviet moon Nikita Khrushchev united-statesmoonsleep The two most powerful nations of the world had been squared off against each other, each with its finger on the button. You'd have thought that war was inevitable. But both sides showed that if the desire to avoid war is strong enough, even the most pressing dispute can be solved by compromise. And a compromise over Cuba was indeed found. Nikita Khrushchev powerfulstrongwar Historians are dangerous and capable of turning everything upside down. They have to be watched. Nikita Khrushchev historianupside-downdangerous Do you think when two representatives holding diametrically opposing views get together and shake hands, the contradictions between our systems will simply melt away? What kind of a daydream is that? Nikita Khrushchev viewshandsthinking The main difference for the history of the world if I had been shot rather than Kennedy is that Onassis probably wouldn't have married Mrs Khrushchev. Nikita Khrushchev marrieddifferencesworld I worked at a factory owned by Germans, at coal pits owned by Frenchmen, and at a chemical plant owned by Belgians. There I discovered something about capitalists. They are all alike, whatever the nationality. All they wanted from me was the most work for the least money that kept me alive. So I became a communist. Nikita Khrushchev coalpitsalive Everyone can err, but Stalin considered that he never erred, that he was always right. He never acknowledged to anyone that he made any mistake, large or small, despite the fact that he made not a few mistakes in the matter of theory and in his practical activity. Nikita Khrushchev mattermistakefacts Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all Nikita Khrushchev individualismindividualitypolitics The survivors (of a nuclear war) would envy the dead. Nikita Khrushchev envysurvivorwar Berlin is the testicles of the West, every time I want the West to scream, I squeeze on Berlin. Nikita Khrushchev west-berlinwantwar The Americans have surrounded our country with military bases and threatened us with nuclear weapons, and now they will learn just what it feels like to have enemy missiles pointed at you; we'd be doing nothing more than giving them a little of their own medicine. Nikita Khrushchev medicinemilitarycountry