Vladimir Lenin Quotes

When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state.

Advocating the expansion of the powers of the state is treason to mankind

Government is the assumption of authority over a given area and all within it, exercised generally for the double purpose of more complete oppression of its subjects and extension of its boundaries.

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.

I am the government.

I am the state.

As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.

We do well in a country where people determine their own future. We suffer then there are dictators.

Rulers come and go; governments end and forms of government change; but sovereignty survives.

The deputies of the people should not and cannot be the people's representatives, they can only be its servants.... The moment that people give power to their representatives, they abdicate their liberty.

The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.

To make a nation free, the crafty must be kept in awe, and the violent in restraint.

Government is essentially the negation of liberty.

You can have a strong government and a weak people, or strong people and weak government, but you cannot have both.

The right of self-government does not comprehend the government of others.

The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty.

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

The State acquires power... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never abdicates.

It will be a war of national liberation. We believe the people reject totalitarianism.

It is not good to have a rule of many.

When government disappears, it's not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place.

All government, of course, is against liberty.

Empire and liberty.

Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract.