If you would test the character of anything, you only need to enquire whether that thing leads you to God or away from God.
Good is not always God's will, but God's will is always good.
The American people can have anything they want; the trouble is, they don't know what they want.
I may not be able to say all I think; but I am not going to say anything I do not think.
Anybody can be nobody; but it takes a man to be somebody.
I would rather be arrested as a traitor than fight a war for Wall Street.
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.
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.
We want a system in which the worker shall get what he produces and the capitalist shall produce what he gets.
When I rise it will be with the ranks, and not from the ranks.
Riches are the savings of many in the hands of one.
The most heroic word in all languages is REVOLUTION.
If I were hungry and friendless today, I would rather take my chances with a saloon-keeper than with the average preacher.
I am for Socialism because I am for humanity.
I would no more teach children military training than teach them arson, robbery, or assassination.
Be true to yourself and you cannot be a traitor to any good cause on earth.
The rights of one are as sacred as the rights of a million.
Capitalism needs and must have the prison to protect itself from the criminals it has created.