Property-owners are the most energetic flag-waggers and patriots in every country, but only so long as they enjoy their possessions: to safeguard those they desert God, King and Country in a twinkling.

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.

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

The cruelties of property and privilege are always more ferocious than the revenges of poverty and oppression. For the one aims at perpetuating resented injustice, the other is merely a momentary passion soon appeased.

The race question is subsidiary to the class question in politics, and to think of imperialism in terms of race is disastrous. But to neglect the racial factor as merely incidental is an error only less grave than to make it fundamental.

The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.

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