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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.

— Eugene V. Debs The Canton, Ohio Speech, Anti-War Speech (1918)

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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)

Let the people everywhere take heart of hope, for the cross is bending, the midnight is passing, and joy cometh with the morning.

Federal Court statement (1918)

When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.

The most heroic word in all languages is REVOLUTION.

Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most — that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least.

Walls and Bars (1927)

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