Eugene V. Debs

Quotes

• “Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living things, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the m...”
• “I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a f...”
• “I left that church with rich and royal hatred of the priest as a person, and a loathing for the church as an institution...”
• “I know that the Kaiser incarnates all there is of brute force and of murder. And yet I would not, if I had the power, ki...”
• “In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism,...”
• “In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism,...”
• “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 pr...”
• “While there is a lower class, I am in it. While there is a criminal element, I am of it.While there is a soul in prison,...”
• “I would not be a Moses to lead you into the Promised Land, because if I could lead you into it, someone else could lead ...”
• “While there is a lower class I am in it. While there is a criminal element I am of it. While there is a soul in prison I...”
• “If I were hungry and friendless today, I would rather take my chances with a saloon-keeper than with the average preache...”
• “Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.”
• “When great changes occur in history when great principles are involved as a rule the majority are wrong.”
• “The American people can have anything they want the trouble is they don't know what they want.”
• “I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.”
• “The workers are the saviors of society the redeemers of the race.”
• “Sooner or later every war of trade becomes a war of blood.”