No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law?

The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.

Revolution is indeed a violent process. But if it is to result only in a change of dictatorship, in a shifting of names and political personalities, then it is hardly worth while.

Marriage is primarily an economic arrangement, an insurance pact. It differs from the ordinary life insurance agreement only in that it is more binding, more exacting.

What a strange development of patriotism that turns a thinking being into a loyal machine!

The poor, stupid, free American citizen! Free to starve, free to tramp the highways of this great country, he enjoys universal suffrage, and by that right, he has forged chains around his limbs. The reward that he receives is stringent labor laws prohibiting the right of boycott, of picketing, of everything, except the right to be robbed of the fruits of his labor.

The American suffrage movement has been, until very recently, altogether a parlor affair, absolutely detached from the economic needs of the people.