I may not be able to say all I think; but I am not going to say anything I do not think.

The class which has the power to rob upon a large scale has also the power to control the government and legalize their robbery.

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

What can Labor do for itself? The answer is not difficult. Labor can organize, it can unify; it can consolidate its forces. This done, it can demand and command.

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

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

The most heroic word in all languages is REVOLUTION.

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

While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

No war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people.

Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.

The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful die young, but that they grow old and mean. It will not happen to me.

If there was a war, a big war, a major war on the planet, it would be a nuclear war, and it would destroy all life, human and subhuman, on planet earth.

To the haranguers of the populace among the ancients, succeed among the moderns your writers of political pamphlets and news-papers, and your coffee-house talkers.

We decline the claim to power by parties which want to own their followers body and soul, and which want to put themselves over and above the whole nation.

I think you've got to be honest with yourself at what you're good at. That's the hardest thing to do.

I like clean ladies and nice ladies.

A man who behaves like a beast is worse than the beast.

He who is ever brooding over result often loses nerve in the performance of his duty.

So you should be able to see them clearly in your imagination. We always find it easier to visualize what we fear; it's what keeps us afraid of the dark.

I don't believe that to understand is necessarily to pardon, but I feel that to understand makes one forget that one cannot pardon.