Quan hệ của chúng ta với Kamenev, vốn ban đầu rất tốt đẹp sau cuộc nổi dậy, bắt đầu trở nên xa cách hơn từ ngày đó.

Tôi chắc rằng Trotsky cũng ủng hộ các quan điểm của tôi như tôi vậy.

The need of the hour was for a man who would incarnate the call to struggle, a man who, subordinating himself completely to the requirements of the struggle, would become the ringing summons to arms, the will which exacts from all unconditional submission to a great, sacrificial necessity. Only a man with Trotsky's capacity for work, only a man so unsparing of himself as Trotsky, only a man who knew how to speak to the soldiers as Trotsky did—only such a man could have become the standard bearer of the armed toilers. He was all things rolled into one.