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"The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute."

"A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted."

"We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country."

"We're a nation of liars. But I mean that in the kindest sense."
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"There are no conditions in which we subordinate the interests of the class as a whole to the interests of any sect, any chapel, any separate organization."

"Only under conditions of revolutionary crises do you have the highest level of self-organization; this is the Soviet type of organization, which is to say, workers' councils, people's councils, call them what you want, popular committees."

"Socialist democracy is not, a luxury and its need is not limited to the most advanced industrial countries."

"We do not believe that the Marxist program, which embodies the continuity of the experience of the actual class struggle and real revolutions of the last one hundred and fifty years, is a definitely closed book."

"Workers do not strike every day, they cannot do that the way they function in the capitalist economy. The way they have to live by selling their labor power makes that impossible."

"There is a process of social and of political differentiation going on in the real working class all the time."

"You can have relatively high levels of class consciousness with a lower level of class militancy than one would have expected."
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