False rhetoric and false boastfulness spell moral ruin and lead unfailingly to political extinction.

One of the basic conditions for the victory of socialism is the arming of the workers Communist and the disarming of the bourgeoisie the middle class.

You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.

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

Learning is never done without errors and defeat.

But democracy is by no means a limit one may not overstep; it is only one of the stages in the course of development from feudalism to capitalism, and from capitalism to Communism.

Why should freedom of speech and freedom of press be allowed? Why should a government which is doing what it believes to be right allow itself to be criticized? It would not allow opposition by lethal weapons. Ideas are much more fatal things than guns. Why should any man be allowed to buy a printing press and disseminate pernicious opinions calculated to embarrass the government?