One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is to be found in the character of the demands now being put forward by the leadership.

The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capitalist isolation.

In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism.

All the world has been converted and Washington is the modem Mecca.

All peoples are entangled in the net of the world market.

When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity.

The patience and forbearance of the poor are among the strongest bulwarks of the rich.