Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party - though they are quite numerous - is no freedom at all.

Without general elections, without freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, without the free battle of opinions, life in every public institution withers away, becomes a caricature of itself, and bureaucracy rises as the only deciding factor.

History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.

We will be victorious if we have not forgotten how to learn.

The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands.

The clergy, no less than the capitalist class, lives on the backs of the people, profits from the degradation, the ignorance and the oppression of the people.

The victory of socialism will not descend like fate from heaven.