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

Recovery proceeding excellently. Am sure that the crushing of the Kazan Czechs and whiteguards, as well as of the kulak extortioners supporting them, will be exemplarily ruthless.

The only one who doesn't make mistakes is the one who doesn't do anything.

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

The aim of socialism is not only to abolish the present division of mankind into smaller states and all-national isolation, not only to bring the nations closer to each other, but also to merge them.

Sometimes quantity has a quality all its own.

Freedom of speech and the press must be complete. But then freedom of association must be complete too.