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You need at this time especially to know that you are fit for something better than slavery and cannon fodder.
The Canton, Ohio Speech, Anti-War Speech (1918)
If ever I become entirely respectable I shall be quite sure that I have outlived myself.
The Canton, Ohio Speech, Anti-War Speech (1918)
Wars throughout history have been waged for conquest and plunder.
The Canton, Ohio Speech, Anti-War Speech (1918)
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.
The Canton, Ohio Speech, Anti-War Speech (1918)
The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles.
The Canton, Ohio Speech, Anti-War Speech (1918)
In due time the hour will strike and this great cause triumphant — the greatest in history — will proclaim the emancipation of the working class and the brotherhood of all mankind.
The Canton, Ohio Speech, Anti-War Speech (1918)
To speak for labor; to plead the cause of the men and women and children who toil; to serve the working class, has always been to me a high privilege; a duty of love.
The Canton, Ohio Speech, Anti-War Speech (1918)
Do not worry over the charge of treason to your masters, but be concerned about the treason that involves yourselves. Be true to yourself and you cannot be a traitor to any good cause on earth.
The Canton, Ohio Speech, Anti-War Speech (1918)
You who have your lives to lose, you certainly above all others have the right to decide the momentous issue of war or peace.
The Canton, Ohio Speech, Anti-War Speech (1918)
How stupid and shortsighted the ruling class really is! Cupidity is stone blind. It has no vision.
The Canton, Ohio Speech, Anti-War Speech (1918)
The Man of Galilee, the Carpenter, the workingman who became the revolutionary agitator of his day soon found himself to be an undesirable citizen in the eyes of the ruling knaves and they had him crucified.
The Canton, Ohio Speech, Anti-War Speech (1918)
The feudal barons of the Middle Ages, the economic predecessors of the capitalists of our day, declared all wars. And their miserable serfs fought all the battles.
The Canton, Ohio Speech, Anti-War Speech (1918)
They have always taught and trained you to believe it to be your patriotic duty to go to war and to have yourselves slaughtered at their command.
The Canton, Ohio Speech, Anti-War Speech (1918)
There is nothing that helps the Socialist Party so much as receiving an occasional deathblow. The oftener it is killed the more active, the more energetic, the more powerful it becomes.
The Canton, Ohio Speech, Anti-War Speech (1918)
I may not be able to say all I think; but I am not going to say anything that I do not think. I would rather a thousand times be a free soul in jail than to be a sycophant and coward in the streets.
The Canton, Ohio Speech, Anti-War Speech (1918)
They themselves do not cultivate the soil. Nor do they allow others to cultivate it. They keep it idle to enrich themselves, to pocket the millions of dollars of unearned increment.
The Canton, Ohio Speech, Anti-War Speech (1918)
The world is daily changing before our eyes. The sun of capitalism is setting; the sun of socialism is rising. It is our duty to build the new nation and the free republic.
The Canton, Ohio Speech, Anti-War Speech (1918)
And now for all of us to do our duty!
The Canton, Ohio Speech, Anti-War Speech (1918)
I hate, I loathe, I despise Junkers and junkerdom. I have no earthly use for the Junkers of Germany, and not one particle more use for the Junkers in the United States.
The Canton, Ohio Speech, Anti-War Speech (1918)
I never had much faith in leaders. I am willing to be charged with almost anything, rather than to be charged with being a leader. I am suspicious of leaders, and especially of the intellectual variety. Give me the rank and file every day in the week.
The Canton, Ohio Speech, Anti-War Speech (1918)