The American people can have anything they want; the trouble is, they don't know what they want.

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.

One who is seeking the truth sooner or later finds a woman.

Fashion magazine disease articles. My personal Kryptonite.

...when men ignite in their hearts a religious fury, they inflict at the same time a blindness on their eyes.

Don't rely on men but don't shun them either.

If we can't find cuts in the defense budget, we're not looking carefully enough.

If I can help and influence girls who are going through body-image issues then I think that's amazing.

The cover-up, more than the initial wrongdoing, is what is most likely to bring you down.

Some things were worth the dance with danger.

Exactly what part of that is supposed to make me feel better?" Though, honestly, hearing that she was jealous of me did make me feel a teeny, tiny bit better.

Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt