Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.
I have the responsibility of over four million people, and I am in a position to do good, to be able to bring about a new life for my people, and I will continue to move in that direction. It's a burden, but it needs to be done, and you have to have the courage and wisdom to see it through.
For years after I resigned, I was still faithful to their way of thinking. But not in the American Communists.

