I decided to stay and see the finish.John Reed
Adventure it was, and one of the most glorious mankind ever embarked upon, sweeping into history at the head of the toiling masses, and staking everything on their vast and silent power to win a new world.John Reed
Not as a sudden spurt of purposeless ferocity, not as an aberration of the well-behaved and orderly crowd.John Reed
It was as impersonal as nature itself, its expression quantitative not qualitative.John Reed
In the working-class quarters the houses were black with people, the roofs late at night were crowded with silhouettes, and the streets below alive with tens of thousands, moving in dark masses.John Reed
Into this city of hard and bitter struggle, long before daylight, were pouring workers on foot.John Reed
It is the sleep before the gigantic storm — the stillness under the vast approaching wave.John Reed
Imagine, then, Petrograd itself straining in every nerve, ready to leap at its enemy, crouched to spring and not yet daring — the cruel, agonizing void before the storm.'John Reed
Poor Russia! The Germans were crushing in the western front; in the North starvation and terror of German invasion; and behind, America and England helping the Counter-Revolution.John Reed
Let the diplomats and the chancelleries of the world know that the only just, honorable and durable peace is the peace concluded by the revolutionary proletariat with the aid of fraternization in the trenches, and not behind the scenes by the diplomats.Lenin