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.

Be true to yourself and you cannot be a traitor to any good cause on earth.

I am not a capitalist soldier; I am a proletarian revolutionist. I do not belong to the regular army of the plutocracy, but to the irregular army of the people. I refuse to obey any command to fight from the ruling class, but I will not wait to be commanded to fight for the working class. I am opposed to every war but one; I am for that war with heart and soul, and that is the world-wide war of social revolution. In that war I am prepared to fight in any way the ruling class may make necessary, even to the barricades.

They have always taught and trained you to believe it to be your patriotic duty to go to war and to have yourselves slaughtered at their command. But in all the history of the world you, the people, have never had a voice in declaring war, and strange as it certainly appears, no war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people.

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

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

The prison, above all others, should be the most human of institutions.