"The greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

"I became a Communist by studying capitalist political economy, and when I had some understanding of that problem, it actually seemed to me so absurd, so irrational, so inhuman, that I simply began to …"

"I don't propose to be a dictator. I don't propose to be a tyrant. I propose to be a leader of a revolution."

"I am not an optimist. I am a realist. I believe in the triumph of the revolution."

"I have reached the conclusion that the only way to defend the revolution is to make many enemies."