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

I may not be able to say all I think; but I am not going to say anything I do not think.

The protection the government owes you and fails to provide, you are morally bound to provide for yourselves.

I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.

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.

A man should take to himself no discomfort from an opinion expressed or implied by his adversary, but it is difficult, and oftentimes humiliating to attempt to justify the kindness of one's friends.

We want a system in which the worker shall get what he produces and the capitalist shall produce what he gets.