Be militant! Be an organization that is going to do things! If you can find older men who will give you countenance and acceptableleadership, follow them; but if you cannot, organize separately and dispense with them. There are only two sorts of men to be associated with when something is to be done: Those are young men and men who never grow old.

We must believe the things We teach our children

We are participants, whether we would or not, in the life of the world.... We are partners with the rest. What affects mankind isinevitably our affair as well as the nations of Europe and Asia.

America is the place where you cannot kill your government by killing the men who conduct it.

While we are fighting for freedom, we must see, among other things, that labor is free.

Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.

There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.