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Welcome to the New United States

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
— Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.
— Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
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Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
— Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Destroy the family, you destroy the country.
— Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
— Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
— Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

He who now talks about the “freedom of the press” goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.
— Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

We do not have time to play at “oppositions” at “conferences.” We will keep our political opponents… whether open or disguised as “nonparty,” in prison.
— Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

One of the basic conditions for the victory of socialism is the arming of the workers and the disarming of the bourgeoisie (the middle class).
— Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.
— Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

A system of licensing and registration is the perfect device to deny gun ownership to the bourgeoisie.
— Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

The goal of socialism is communism.
— Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
— Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

The bourgeoisie is many times stronger than we. To give it the weapon of freedom of the press is to ease the enemy’s cause, to help the class enemy. We do not desire to end in suicide, so we will not do this.
— Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the elevation of the single person, and long ago we were over and done with the business of a hero, and here it comes up again: the glorification of one personality. This is not good at all. I am just like everybody else.
— Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.
— Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.
— Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.
— Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Fascism is capitalism in decay.
— Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.
— Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.
— Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing.
— Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.
— Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Without a revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement.
— Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution.
— Vladimir Ilyich Lenin