If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.

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

The society which we have built can in no way be termed "state socialism."The social organization which we have created can be termed a Soviet, socialist organization which has not yet been quite completed, but is in its root a socialist organization of society. The foundation of this society is public ownership.

Anti-Semitism, as an extreme form of racial chauvinism, is the most dangerous vestige of cannibalism.

I admit that I do not recall the speeches of Comrades [Earl] Browder and [Samuel] Darcy. I do not even recall of what they spoke. It is possible that they said something of this nature. But it was not the Soviet people who created the American Communist Party. It was created by Americans.

There are on occasions, as we know, when resources are abundant, but they are expended so incompetently that the advantage is nullified.

The reason why there is now no communist government in Paris is because in the circumstances of 1945 the Soviet army was not able to reach French soil.