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Bolshevism may cause the goose-flesh of abject terror to prickle the spine of the "powers that prey," but it has no terrors for the working class.

— Kate Richards O'Hare Farewell Address of a Socialist (1919)

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An efficient man is a rebellious man. And anything that raises the efficiency of the working class will speed the revolution.

Booze and Revolution (1915)

A man whose brain is pickled in whiskey is of little value to the ruling class, and he is of inestimable less value to the working class. Efficiency oils the wheels of revolution.

Booze and Revolution (1915)

Prohibition has not reduced the sale of liquor, but if the ruling classes can succeed in cutting down drinking by liquor legislation, will it speed the coming revolution? Most assuredly!

Booze and Revolution (1915)

Sobriety means efficiency, and "efficiency" movements have in all ages been the incubators in which revolutions were hatched.

Booze and Revolution (1915)

Get busy, you middle class foes of booze! We guarantee that if you can keep them sober, we will organize them for revolution.

Booze and Revolution (1915)

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