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

As long as this great army of workers is scattered among so many craft unions, it will be impossible for them to unite and act in harmony together. Craft unionism is the negation of solidarity. The more unions you have, the less unity.

The truth has always been dangerous to the rule of the rogue, the exploiter, the robber. So the truth must be supressed.

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.

I do not want you to follow me or anyone else; if you are looking for a Moses to lead you out of this capitalist wilderness, you will stay right where you are. I would not lead you into the promised land if I could, because if I led you in, some one else would lead you out.

Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.

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