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

Yes, I am my brother's keeper. I am under a moral obligation to him that is inspired, not by any maudlin sentimentality but by the higher duty I owe myself. What would you think me if I were capable of seating myself at a table and gorging myself with food and saw about me the children of my fellow beings starving to death?

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

Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation.

We want a system in which the worker shall get what he produces and the capitalist shall produce what he gets.

The economic owning class is always the political ruling class.