The General Public Knows Practically Nothing About

They Tell Us That We Live In A Great Free Republic; That Our Institutions Are Democratic; That We Are A Free And Self-governing People. That Is Too Much, Even For A Joke. ... Wars Throughout History Have Been Waged For Conquest And Plunder... And That Is War In A Nutshell. The Master Class Has Always Declared The Wars; The Subject Class Has Always Fought The Battles.

I Would No More Teach Children Military Training Than Teach Them Arson, Robbery, Or Assassination.

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.

If You Go To The City Of Washington, And You Examine The Pages Of The Congressional Directory, You Will Find That Almost All Of Those Corporation Lawyers And Cowardly Politicians, Members Of Congress, And Misrepresentatives Of The Masses - You Will Find That Almost All Of Them Claim, In Glowing Terms, That They Have Risen From The Ranks To Places Of Eminence And Distinction. I Am Very Glad That I Cannot Make That Claim For Myself. I Would Be Ashamed To Admit That I Had Risen From The Ranks. When I Rise It Will Be With The Ranks, And Not From The Ranks.