Trust is good, but control is better.

Dictatorship is rule based directly upon force and unrestricted by any laws. The revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat is rule won and maintained by the use of violence by the proletariat against the bourgeoisie, rule that is unrestricted by any laws.

Be as radical as Reality.

The most important thing in illness is never to lose heart.

In the end, one or the other will triumph - a funeral dirge will be sung over the Soviet republic or over world capitalism.

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.

International unity of the workers is more important than the national.