“Democracy is indispensable to socialism.”

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

It is, of course, much easier to shout, abuse, and howl than to attempt to relate, to explain.

The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.

There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.

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.

America has become one of the foremost countries in regard to the depth of the abyss which lies between the handful of arrogant multimillionaires who wallow in filth and luxury, and the millions of working people who constantly live on the verge of pauperism.

Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.

Communists have become bureaucrats. If anything will destroy us, it is this.

Capitalists will sell us the rope we will hang them with.

No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.

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

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

Any cook should be able to run the country.

He who does not work shall not eat.

Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.

The aim of socialism is not only to abolish the present division of mankind into smaller states and all-national isolation, not only to bring the nations closer to each other, but also to merge them.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

The Democratic Party was always there on crime, but in the past we let the ideologues on the left dominate. The Republicans may still let the ideologues on the right dominate.

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

Certainly any president – Democrat, Republican, liberal, conservative – should keep an open mind until they get the briefing.

Democrats don’t relate to middle-class people.

We tend to talk, Democrats, as a party, in legislative terms.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and Senators and Congressmen and Government officials but the voters of this country.

To my mind, there is a solution which has to do with democracy, because democratic governments are subject to the will of the people. So, if the people will it, you can actually create international institutions through the democratic states.