Of all the treasures a state can possess, the human lives of its citizens are for us the most precious.

[American Communist Party] legally exists in the U.S.A., it nominates its candidates in the elections, including Presidential elections.

We built [socialistic society] for the sake of real personal liberty, liberty without quotation marks.

Yes, the electoral struggle [in U.S.S.R.] will be animated. It will proceed around numerous very sharp questions, namely, practical questions having first-rate significance for the people.

Divide the world into regional groups as a transitional stage to world government. Populations will more readily abandon their national loyalty to a vague regional loyalty than they will for a world authority. Later the regions can be brought together all the way into a single world dictatorship.

Voters decide nothing. Vote counters decide everything!

It was necessary, temporarily, to limit certain requirements, accumulate necessary means, strain forces. We acted precisely in this way and built a socialist society.