“And that is my definition of democracy, the right to be in a minority and not be suppressed.”

As my Russian improves, I become increasingly conscious of just what sort of a society I live in.

I am a communist and a worker, and I have lived in a decadent capitalist society where the workers are slaves.

We do not support the man. We do not support the individual. We support the idea of independent revolution in the Western Hemisphere, free from American intervention.

As my Russian improves, I become increasingly conscious of just what sort of a society I live in.

Americans are so spoiled. They think you always have to have a car, whereas I got away on my own two feet.

I hear they burn for murder. Well, they say it just takes a second to die.

Revolutions require work, revolutions require sacrifice, revolutions, and our own included, require a certain amount of rationing, a certain amount of calluses, a certain amount of sacrifice.

They have found absolutely nothing to connect us with the Communist Party of the United States. In regards to your question about whether I myself am a communist, as I said I do not belong to any other organization.

Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.

In the future, there will be fewer but better Russians.

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.

Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

There’s really no point to voting. If it made any difference, it would probably be illegal.