Leon Trotsky

?The party that leans upon the workers but serves the bourgeoisie, in the period of the greatest sharpening of the class struggle, cannot but sense the smells wafted from the waiting grave.

…capitalism does live by crises and booms, just as a human being lives by inhaling and exhaling.

If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.

From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.

Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain – at least in a poor country like Russia – and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.

Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.

The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

You don’t win wars by dying for your country you win wars by making the other son of a b*tch die for his.

When I warned them the French that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals told their Prime Minister and his divided Cabinet, In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken. Some chicken! Some neck!

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

The enemy is in front of us, the enemy is behind us, the enemy is to the right and to the left of us. They can’t get away this time!

When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So when they start calling people my age, 18, up, I was one they called.

I sincerely want peace, not because I lack resources for war, but because I hate bloodshed.

No one ever wins a war.

Once war is forced upon us, there is no alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end. War’s very object is victory-not prolonged indecision.

The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash.

Among the calamities of war, may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages.

Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tide-water dog, strong of muscle and with warm, long hair, from Puget Sound to San Diego.

Twice in my lifetime the long arm of destiny has reached across the oceans and involved the entire life and manhood of the United States in a deadly struggle.There was no use in saying We don’t want it; we won