While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

I would rather be arrested as a traitor than fight a war for Wall Street.

Anybody can be nobody; but it takes a man to be somebody.

The class which has the power to rob upon a large scale has also the power to control the government and legalize their robbery.

I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.

In all the history of organized labor, from the earliest times to the present day, no body of union workingmen ever served in a more humiliating and debasing role than that in which the railway unions appear at this very hour before the American people and the world.

If I were hungry and friendless today, I would rather take my chances with a saloon-keeper than with the average preacher.