“There are on occasions, as we know, when resources are abundant, but they are expended so incompetently that the advantage is nullified.”

“When the Bolsheviks came to power they were soft and easy with their enemies... we had begun by making a mistake. Leniency towards such a power was a crime against the working classes. That soon became apparent...”

“We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns?”

“Undoubtedly, our path is not of the easiest; but, just as undoubtedly, we are not to be frightened by difficulties. Paraphrasing from the well-known words of Luther, Russia might say: ‘Here I stand on the frontier between the old, capitalist world and the new, socialist world. Here on this frontier I unite the efforts of the proletarians of the West and of the peasantry of the East in order to shatter the old world. May the god of history be my aid!”

“I believe in only one thing, the power of human will.”

“Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.”

“A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.”