It is necessary - secretly and urgently to prepare the terror.

Soviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army.

Sometimes quantity has a quality all its own.

Unity must be won, and only the workers, the class-conscious workers themselves can win it - by stubborn and persistent effort.

Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.

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?

The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.