"Two rich families having two rich fiats are obliged to move into one of their fiats during the winter, giving the other up to the use of the poor population in view of the extreme need created by the war."

Written: December 3 (November 20), 1917.

"It would be betraying democracy and abdicating the basic principles and tasks of the socialist revolution, which has begun in Russia, to refuse, on that ground, to practise the right of recall, or to hamper or restrict its exercise in any way."

 "The alliance between the workers and the working and exploited peasants would make it obligatory for the party of the proletariat to vote for the peasants and against the bourgeoisie"

"Comrades, working people! Remember that now you yourselves are at the helm of state. No one will help you if you yourselves do not unite and take into your hands all affairs of the state."

"If the war is to be brought to an end, the power of capital must be destroyed."

"Victory will belong only to those who have faith in the people, those who are immersed in the life-giving spring of popular creativity."

"For the workers’ and peasants’ government, freedom of the press means liberation of the press from capitalist oppression, and public ownership of paper mills and printing presses"

Delivered onNovember 16, 1917.

"It stands to reason, a split would be highly deplorable. But an honest and open split would now be incomparably better than internal sabotage, the thwarting of our own decisions, disorganisation and prostration."

Written by Lenin in November, 1917, on the need to improve public education in Petrograd.

"The Central Committee affirms, finally, that despite all difficulties, the victory of socialism both in Russia and in Europe can only be ensured by the unswerving continuation of the present government's policy."

Written in November, 1917.

"There must be no vacillation. We are backed by the majority of the workers and peasants and of the army."

"The Soviet Government is making every effort to avert bloodshed..." Wired on 30 October, 1917.

 "All public organisations must be drawn into the fight against the food plunderers."

"Peace cannot be concluded only from above. Peace must be won from below. We put no trust in the German generals, but we have faith in the German people."

"Soldiers, the cause of peace is in your hands! Do not allow the counter-revolutionary generals to frustrate the great cause of peace, place them under guard in order to avert acts of summary justice unworthy of a revolutionary army"

"Not all peasants have as yet realised that their Soviets of Peasants’ Deputies are the true, authentic, supreme state power, but they soon will." Foreword to the Pamphlet, How the Socialist RevolutionariesCheated The People, and What the New Bolshevik Government Has Given the People.

"I want to say I am sure the Republic and all the destroyers we send will do their duty in defending the revolution."