When we are in partnership and have stopped clutching each other's throats, when we have stopped enslaving each other, we will stand together, hands clasped, and be friends. We will be comrades, we will be brothers, and we will begin the march to the grandest civilization the human race has ever known.

I would rather a thousand times be a free soul in jail than to be a sycophant and coward in the streets.

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

I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.

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.

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 Republican and Democratic parties, or, to be more exact, the Republican-Democratic party, represent the capitalist class in the class struggle. They are the political wings of the capitalist system and such differences as arise between them relate to spoils and not to principles.