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.

Anybody can be nobody; but it takes a man to be somebody.

The general public knows practically nothing about the prison and appears to be little concerned about how it is managed and how prisoners are treated.

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.

Every one of the aristocratic conspirators and would-be murderers claims to be an arch-patriot; every one of them insists that the war is being waged to make the world safe for democracy. What humbug! What rot! What false pretense! These... tyrants, these red-handed robbers and murderers, the "patriots," while the men who have the courage to stand face to face with them, speak the truth, and fight for their exploited victims - they are [called] the disloyalists and traitors. If this be true, I want to take my place side by side with the traitors in this fight.

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

No war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people.