Our new Soviet constitution will, in my opinion, be the most democratic constitution of all those existing in the world.

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.

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

This war is not as in the past: whoever occupies a territory also imposes his own social system.

This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.

Undoubtedly, our path is not of the easiest; but, just as undoubtedly, we are not to be frightened by difficulties. Paraphrasing from the well-known words of Luther, Russia might say: ‘Here I stand on the frontier between the old, capitalist world and the new, socialist world. Here on this frontier I unite the efforts of the proletarians of the West and of the peasantry of the East in order to shatter the old world. May the god of history be my aid!

It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes.