In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the People.”(Canton, OH, Anti-War Speech,...

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.

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 meanest on the earth. I said then and I say...

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 you out of it.

I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth; I am a citizen of the world.

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 am not free.

I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men...

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

I left that church with rich and royal hatred of the priest as a person, and a loathing for the church as an institution, and I vowed that I would never go inside a church...