When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.

No war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people.

The Republican and Democratic parties, or, to be more exact, the Republican-Democratic party, represent the capitalist class in the class struggle. They are the political wings of the capitalist system and such differences as arise between them relate to spoils and not to principles.

They tell us that we live in a great free republic; that our institutions are democratic; that we are a free and self-governing people. That is too much, even for a joke. ... Wars throughout history have been waged for conquest and plunder... And that is war in a nutshell. The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles.

The economic owning class is always the political ruling class.

I'd rather vote for something I want and not get it than vote for something I don't want, and get it.

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