The people will have the right to elect their representatives from a list of candidates [who have been approved by the Party].

The history of a revolution is for us first of all a history of the forcible entrance of the masses into the realm of rulership over their own destiny.

Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.

Our party's most outstanding mediocrity.

Workers – men and women – of all countries, place yourselves under the banner of the Fourth International. It is the banner of your approaching victory!

The Soviet State does not need either illusions or camouflage. It can claim only that world authority which is confirmed by the facts.

The Left Opposition declared that the new tempo of industrialization were above our forces, and that the liquidation of the kulaks as a class in the course of three years was a fantastic task, if one wishes to say so, we find ourselves this time "less radical" than the Stalinists.