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

Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.

Give me just one generation of youth, and I'll transform the whole world.

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

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?

For the first time the peasant has seen real freedom - freedom to eat his bread, freedom from starvation.

But suppose, for the sake of argument, free competition, without any sort of monopoly, would develop capitalism trade more rapidly. Is it not a fact that the more rapidly trade and capitalism develop, the greater is the concentration of production and capital which gives rise to monopoly?