When the mass of men are dispossessed - own nothing - they become wholly dependent upon the owners; and when those owners are in active competition to lower the cost of production the mass of men whom they exploit not only lack the power to order their own lives, but suffer from want and insecurity as well.

The power of the State must be invoked for restoring economic freedom just as it has been invoked for destroying economic freedom.

If we are to be happy, decent and secure of our souls: drink some kind of fermented liquor with one's food; go on the water from time to time; dance on occasions, and sing in a chorus.

The choice lies between property on the one hand and slavery, public or private, on the other. There is no third issue.

In the midst of all these innumerable forms of a common protest and universal ill-ease there has grown up one definite body of doctrine whose adherents are called Communists and who desired the total subversion of what had been, hitherto unquestioned among civilized European men, the general doctrines of property and individual freedom.

If we do not restore the Institution of Property we cannot escape restoring the Institution of Slavery; there is no third course.

And the men that were boys when I was a boy Shall sit and drink with me.