Speaking of myself, I was made to realize long ago that the old trade union was utterly incompetent to deal successfully with the exploiting corporations in this struggle. I was made to see that in craft unionism the capitalist class have it within their power to keep the workers divided, to use one part of them to conquer and crush another part of them. Indeed, I was made to see that the old form of unionism separates the workers and keeps them helpless at the mercy of their masters.

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

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.

I would no more teach children military training than teach them arson, robbery, or assassination.

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

Capitalism needs and must have the prison to protect itself from the criminals it has created.

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