If elections really changed anything, they would be outlawed.
The American suffrage movement has been, until very recently, altogether a parlor affair, absolutely detached from the economic needs of the people.
What a strange development of patriotism that turns a thinking being into a loyal machine!
...The greatest bulwark of capitalism is militarism.
Liberty will not descend to a people, a people must raise themselves to liberty...
Poor America, of what avail is all her wealth, if the individuals comprising the nation are wretchedly poor? If they live in squalor, in filth, in crime, with hope and joy gone, a homeless, soulless army of human prey.