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Communism is as Jewish as the Mafia is Italian. It's a fact that almost all of the convicted spies for communism have been atheist Jews like the Rosenbergs. And international communism was invented by the Jew Karl Marx and has since been led mostly by Jews - like Trotsky. -- George Lincoln Rockwell
There were nowhere more docile disciples of Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin than the Nazis were. -- Ludwig von Mises
I met Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Engels and Mao when I entered prison and they redeemed me. -- George Jackson
Trotsky rises to give me his hand, then sits at his desk, gently allowing his regard to light on my person. -- Georges Simenon
My favourite author is Leon Trotsky - the political philosophy and the way he writes is beautiful, and really relevant, too. -- Andrej Pejic
Trotsky was essentially a Western mind. Lenin was a Russian, and unlike most other revolutionary exiles, wherever he went he was a Russian. -- Whittaker Chambers
Say what you will, there is something fine about our old aristocracy. I'll bet Trotsky couldn't hit a moving secretary with an egg on a dark night. -- P. G. Wodehouse
Here's to the day when the complete works of Leon Trotsky are published and widely distributed in the Soviet Union. On that day the USSR will have achieved democracy! -- C. Wright Mills
I bet you, if I had met Trotsky, and had had a chat with him, I would have found him a very interesting and human fellow, for I have never yet met a man I didn't like. -- Will Rogers
I would trade all the advantages of humanity to be a fly on the wall when Franklin and Jefferson discussed liberty, Lenin and Trotsky revolution, Newton and Halley the shape of the universe, or when Darwin entertained Huxley and Lyell at Down. -- Stephen Jay Gould
I think I must be the only British actor who's played both Stalin and Trotsky. I need to play Lenin so I can make it a triptych. -- Brian Cox
According to Colonel Ely Garrison, in his autobiography and according to the United States Naval Secret Service Report on Paul Warburg, the Russian Revolution had been financed by the Rothschilds and Warburgs, with a member of the Warburg family carrying the actual funds used by Lenin and Trotsky in Stockholm in 1918. -- Eustace Mullins
I was always much impressed, in reading prison memoirs of revolutionists, such as Lenin and Trotsky ... by the amount of reading they did, the languages they studied, the range of their plans for a better social order. (Or rather, for a new social order.) In the Acts of the Apostles there are constant references to the Way and the New Man. -- Dorothy Day
The Soviet Union was pretty much what Lenin and Trotsky said it was. -- Noam Chomsky
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I remember my parents quarrelling. They would talk as if they were against each other's ideas about Trotsky, but it was just a couple arguing. -- Maria de Medeiros
As Trotsky didn't exactly say, you may not be interested in electronic snoops, but snoops are interested in you, whether or not you keep Coke's secret recipe on your iPhone. -- Barton Gellman
If you walk into a coffee shop in 1903 Vienna, you might find at the same table the artist Gustav Klimt, Sigmund Freud, Leon Trotsky and possibly Adolf Hitler, who lived in Vienna at the same time. -- Eric Weiner
Trotsky found out about him - Leon Trotsky - because A.J.[Muste] worked. He was an activist. And he organized the first sit-in strike in Toledo in a factory. And Trotsky was very impressed with that. -- Nat Hentoff
[Joseph] Stalin closes the exposition of these [Leon Trotsky] ideas with the words, "Such are in general the characteristic features of [Vladimir] Lenin's conception of the proletarian revolution." -- Leon Trotsky

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