The pillars of Hercules of the United States are vulgarity and stupidity.

It is also false that the revolution ripens and comes to development only in the national soil.

The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.

As long as human labor power, and, consequently, life itself, remain articles of sale and purchase, of exploitation and robbery, the principle of the “sacredness of human life” remains a shameful lie, uttered with the object of keeping the oppressed slaves in their chains.

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

That the existence of the Soviet Union has an international revolutionary significance is a commonplace equally recognized by friends and foes.

[Joseph] Stalin closes the exposition of these [Leon Trotsky] ideas with the words, "Such are in general the characteristic features of [Vladimir] Lenin's conception of the proletarian revolution."