We must ask the high cadres ... When you suppressed the rights of others to express freely their political views, did you secure your own?

Democracy is not a mere consequence, a certain stage in the development of society. It is the condition on which the survival of productive forces depends.

We want to become masters of our own destiny. We need no gods and no emperors; we believe in no savior; we want to direct our own lives.

Look rather at the teachings of history, true history, not the history written by Party hacks: genuine democracy, the only valid democracy, is nourished with the blood of martyrs and with the blood of tyrants.