Freedom Is The Recognition Of Necessity.

Ireland Still Remains The Holy Isle Whose Aspirations Must On No Account Be Mixed With The Profane Class-struggles Of The Rest Of The Sinful World ... The Irish Peasant Must Not On Any Account Know That The Socialist Workers Are His Sole Allies In Europe.

Everything Must Justify Its Existence Before The Judgment Seat Of Reason, Or Give Up Existence.

The State Is Nothing But An Instrument Of Opression Of One Class By Another - No Less So In A Democratic Republic Than In A Monarchy.

People Have Learned By Bitter Experience That The "european Fraternal Union Of Peoples" Cannot Be Achieved By Mere Phrases And Pious Wishes, But Only By Profound Revolutions And Bloody Struggles; They Have Learned That The Question Is Not That Of A Fraternal Union Of All European Peoples Under A Single Republican Flag, But Of An Alliance Of The Revolutionary Peoples Against The Counter-revolutionary Peoples, An Alliance Which Comes Into Being Not On Paper, But Only On The Battlefield.

No Nation Can Be Free If It Oppresses Other Nations.