I would not be a Moses to lead you into the Promised Land, because if I could lead you into it, someone else could lead you out of it.

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

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

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

Nothing is more humiliating than to have to beg for work, and a system in which any man has to beg for work stands condemned. No man can defend it.

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.

If it had not been for the discontent of a few fellows who had not been satisfied with their conditions, you would still be living in caves. Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.