"We must learn to approach the masses with the greatest patience and caution, so as not to spoil the work of socialist construction by hasty and clumsy measures."

"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."

"The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation."

"The advanced detachment of the proletariat is a vanguard that is capable of leading the entire mass of the working people, and not merely of pushing them forward."

"We must be able to withstand everything, to agree to any sacrifice, and even — if need be — to resort to all sorts of strategems, manoeuvres, and illegal methods, to evasions and subterfuges, in order…"