Quotes from Eugene V. Debs

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

The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles.

I would rather be arrested as a traitor than fight a war for Wall Street.

Sooner or later every war of trade becomes a war of blood.

Anybody can be nobody; but it takes a man to be somebody.

Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation.

A man should take to himself no discomfort from an opinion expressed or implied by his adversary, but it is difficult, and oftentimes humiliating to attempt to justify the kindness of one's friends.

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.

The workers are the saviors of society the redeemers of the race.