Vladimir Lenin — "The advanced guard of the proletariat, the Communist Party, is necessary to lead…"

"The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency."

"The proletariat needs state power, a centralised organisation of force, an organisation of violence, both to crush the resistance of the exploiters and to lead the enormous mass of the population—the …"

"The experience of all revolutions confirms that only the proletariat, as the most advanced and consistently revolutionary class, can be the leader of the entire toiling and exploited people."

"We must not fear difficulties, but overcome them."

"We need to go to the countryside, to the villages, to the peasants. We must explain to them that the Soviet government is the only government that frees them from exploitation."