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

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.

Politics is the most concentrated expression of economics.

The constitution of Soviet Russia must insure equal rights for all citizens regardless of sex, creed, race, or nationality.

It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.

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.