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.

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.

Capitalism needs and must have the prison to protect itself from the criminals it has created.

If I were hungry and friendless today, I would rather take my chances with a saloon-keeper than with the average preacher.

I am for Socialism because I am for humanity.

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

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