If the workers are organized, all they have to do is to put their hands in their pockets and they have got the capitalist class whipped.

If one man has a dollar he didn't work for, some other man worked for a dollar he didn't get.

The mine owners did not find the gold, they did not mine the gold, they did not mill the gold, but by some weird alchemy all the gold belonged to them!

Eight hours of work, eight hours of play, eight hours of sleep - eight hours a day!

The bandage will remain on the eyes of Justice as long as the Capitalist has the cut, shuffle, and deal.

A strike is an incipient revolution. Many large revolutions have grown out of a small strike.

The mine owners do not find the gold.

To me [Christianity] was all nonsense based on that profane compilation of fables called the Bible.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to walk and run and climb and dance

Do people really want liberty, equality, fraternity? Is it not some manner of speaking?

It's great when you find somebody you're compatible with, but I'm really into separate bedrooms. You live your life and I live mine.

When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It's what makes reading such a wonderful thing.

Virtue looks good but it only suits imposing figures.

I like to throw my own punches when I can, as would any guy. You can always tell when it's somebody in a wig. It's cool when it comes up to your face and it's still you in the fight.

If the Gospel and the Apostles may be credited, no man can be a Christian without charity, and without that faith which works, not by force, but by love.

It is nothing, to give one’s life for Ireland. I’m not the first and maybe I won’t be the last. What’s my life compared with the cause?

Sometimes you take time off, and then you look around and you go, "Hello. What happened? Oh dear!"

Never try to have the last word. You might get it.