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.

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.

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.

Dissimulation is the refuge of the slave.

Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.

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

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