Any cook should be able to run the country.
The most important thing when ill is to never lose heart.
A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution.
The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
Democracy is indispensable to socialism.
Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.
Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.
Sometimes - history needs a push.
The goal of socialism is communism.
The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.
The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.
One man with a gun can control 100 without one.
There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.
To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.