Lenin, the greatest man of action in our century and at the same time the most selfless.

You have read and heard that communist theory-the science of communism created in the main by Marx, this doctrine of Marxism-has ceased to be the work of a single socialist of the nineteenth century, even though he was a genius, and that it has become the doctrine of millions and tens of millions of proletarians all over the world, who are applying it in their struggle against capitalism.

Crime is a product of social excess.

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

No Marxist can deny that the interests of socialism are higher than the interests of the right of nations to self-determination.

Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.

Comrades! The kulak uprising in your five districts must be crushed without pity. You must make example of these people. (1) Hang (I mean hang publicly, so that people see it) at least 100 kulaks, rich bastards, and known bloodsuckers. (2) Publish their names. (3) Seize all their grain. (4) Single out the hostages per my instructions in yesterday's telegram. Do all this so that for miles around people see it all, understand it, tremble, and tell themselves that we are killing the bloodthirsty kulaks and that we will continue to do so ...Find tougher people.