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.

It is Toussaint's supreme merit that while he saw European civilisation as a valuable and necessary thing, and strove to lay its foundations among his people, he never had the illusion that it conferred any moral superiority. He knew French, British, and Spanish imperialists for the insatiable gangsters that they were, that there is no oath too sacred for them to break, no crime, deception, treachery, cruelty, destruction of human life and property which they would not commit against those who could not defend themselves.

As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study.

Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.

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

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.

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.