Reply To Questions From Peasants
"The Council of People’s Commissars calls upon the peasants to take all power into their own hands in their respective localities"
To The Population
"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."
Speech at a Joint Meeting of the Petrograd Soviet of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies and Delegates From the Fronts
"If the war is to be brought to an end, the power of capital must be destroyed."