It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear.

The rich are only defeated when running for their lives.

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.

I must say the idea of a United Africa was nonsense.

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.

After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.

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