"We must be able to withstand everything, to agree to any and every sacrifice, and even — if need be — to resort to all sorts of strategems, manoeuvres and illegal methods, to evasion and concealment o…"

"The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses."

"We are fighting for the complete victory of the proletariat and the peasantry."

"The dictatorship of the proletariat is a persistent struggle—bloody and bloodless, violent and peaceful, military and economic, educational and administrative—against the forces and traditions of the …"

"The soundest strategy in war is to postpone operations until the morale of the enemy declines."