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.

Labor is today the most vital and potential power this planet has ever known, and its historic mission of emancipating the workers of the world from the thraldom of the ages is as certain of ultimate realization as is the setting of the sun.

I'd rather vote for something I want and not get it than vote for something I don't want, and get it.

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.

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 most heroic word in all languages is REVOLUTION.

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