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"Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?"

— Joseph Stalin

January 1, 1970

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Original Language: English

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Often attributed to Stalin, there is not a single source which show that Stalin said this at any given time. The earliest source outside the blogosphere which attributes the quote to Stalin is the book Quotations for Public Speakers : A Historical, Literary, and Political Anthology (2001), p. 121 by the former US senator Robert Torricelli; however, it does not give a source for the quote.

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Often attributed to Stalin, there is not a single source which show that Stalin said this at any given time. The earliest source outside the blogosphere which attributes the quote to Stalin is the book Quotations for Public Speakers : A Historical, Literary, and Political Anthology (2001), p. 121 by the former US senator Robert Torricelli; however, it does not give a source for the quote.