The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

12.64 Charles G. Leland 1824-1903
Hans Breitmann gife a barty—
Vhere ish dat barty now?
‘Hans Breitmann’s Barty’
All goned afay mit de lager-beer—
Afay in de ewigkeit!
‘Hans Breitmann’s Barty’
They saw a Dream of Loveliness descending from the train.
‘The Masher’
12.65 Curtis E. LeMay 1906-90
They’ve got to draw in their horns and stop their aggression, or we’re going to bomb them
back into the Stone Age.
On the North Vietnamese, in ‘Mission with LeMay’ (1965) p. 565
12.66 Lenin (Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov) 1870-1924
Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.
Report to 8th Congress, 1920, in ‘Collected Works’ (ed. 5) vol. 42, p. 30
Imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism.
‘Briefest possible definition of imperialism’ in ‘Imperialism as the Last Stage of Capitalism’ ch. 7
No, Democracy is not identical with majority rule. No, Democracy is a State which recognizes
the subjection of the minority to the majority, that is, an organization for the systematic use of
violence by one class against the other, by one part of the population against another.
‘State and Revolution’ (1919) ch. 4
While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.
‘State and Revolution’ (1919) ch. 5
What is to be done?
Title of pamphlet (1902)
Who? Whom? We or they?
Definition of his political theory, in Alan Bullock ‘Hitler and Stalin’ (1991)
A good man fallen among Fabians.
On George Bernard Shaw, in Arthur Ransome ‘Six Weeks in Russia in 1919’ (1919) ‘Notes of Conversations
with Lenin’
Liberty is precious—so precious that it must be rationed.
In Sidney and Beatrice Webb ‘Soviet Communism’ (1936) p. 1036
12.67 John Lennon 1940-80
Imagine there’s no heaven,
It’s easy if you try,
No hell below us,