Eugene V. Debs Quotes, Thoughts and image

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.

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

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.

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

The rights of one are as sacred as the rights of a million.

Be true to yourself and you cannot be a traitor to any good cause on earth.

I would no more teach children military training than teach them arson, robbery, or assassination.

I am for Socialism because I am for humanity.

If I were hungry and friendless today, I would rather take my chances with a saloon-keeper than with the average preacher.

The most heroic word in all languages is REVOLUTION.

Riches are the savings of many in the hands of one.

When I rise it will be with the ranks, and not from the ranks.

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

We want a system in which the worker shall get what he produces and the capitalist shall produce what he gets.

Nothing is more humiliating than to have to beg for work, and a system in which any man has to beg for work stands condemned. No man can defend it.

You have got to unite in the same labor union and in the same political party and strike and vote together, and the hour you do that, the world is yours.