One fool can ask more questions in a minute than 12 wise men can answer in an hour.

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.

One of the chief symptoms of every revolution is the sharp and sudden increase in the number of ordinary people who take an active, independent and forceful interest in politics.

Give me a child for the first 5 years of his life and he will be mine forever.

It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it.

Only an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty.

To decide once every few years which members of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament-this is the real essence of bourgeois parliamentarism, not only in parliamentary- constitutional monarchies, but also in the most democratic republics.