You need at this time especially to know that you are fit for something better than slavery and cannon fodder.

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

When I rise it will be with the ranks, and not from the ranks.

One glance proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that these unions (railroad craft unions) are exceedingly useful to the corporations; and to the extent that they serve the economic and political purposes of the corporations, they are the foes – and not the friends – of the working class.

The economic owning class is always the political ruling class.

It is when you have done your work honestly, when you have contributed your share to the common fund that you begin to live.

The guns on the walls that surround the prison accurately, though unwittingly, index the true character of the penitentiary in our day.