There are no fortresses that Bolsheviks cannot storm.

Why will our elections be universal?Because all citizens, excluding those deprived of vote by court, will have the right to vote and the right to be elected.

We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or they will crush us.

[After Communism succeeds] ...then, there will come a peace across the earth.

We built this [socialistic] society not for the curbing of personal liberty, but in order that human personalities should really feel free.

Do you remember the tsar? Well, I‘m like a tsar.

If you think that the people of the Soviet Union have any desire themselves, and moreover, by force, to alter the face of surrounding states, then you are badly mistaken.