What can Labor do for itself? The answer is not difficult. Labor can organize, it can unify; it can consolidate its forces. This done, it can demand and command.

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.

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

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

The issue is Socialism versus Capitalism. I am for Socialism because I am for humanity. We have been cursed with the reign of gold long enough. Money constitutes no proper basis of civilization. The time has come to regenerate society - we are on the eve of universal change.

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

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