“The American people can have anything they want; the trouble is, they don't know what they want.” PeopleKnowsWantTrouble Author:Eugene V. Debs
“The people can have anything they want, the only problem is they do not want anything.” PeopleWantProblem Author:Eugene V. Debs
“No war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people.” PeopleWarAgeNationsPeaceAnti WarAntiwarNo WarDeclaring War Author:Eugene V. Debs
“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. But in all the history of the world you, the people, have never had a voice in declaring war, and strange as it certainly appears, no war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people.” PeopleWorldBelieveWarAgeNationsPeaceVoiceMilitaryTaughtStrangeDutyCommandPatrioticAntiwarWorld HistoryNo WarDeclaringDeclaring War Author:Eugene V. Debs
“They tell us that we live in a great free republic; that our institutions are democratic; that we are a free and self-governing people. That is too much, even for a joke. ... Wars throughout history have been waged for conquest and plunder... And that is war in a nutshell. The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles.” PeopleHas BeensWarSelfFreedomLibertyClassToo MuchSubjectsMastersBattleJokesInstitutionsDemocraticRepublicAntiwarConquestGoverningPlunder Author:Eugene V. Debs
“In all the history of organized labor, from the earliest times to the present day, no body of union workingmen ever served in a more humiliating and debasing role than that in which the railway unions appear at this very hour before the American people and the world.” PeopleWorldBodyHoursRolesLaborUnionsOrganizedPresent DayHumiliatingRailwayOrganized Labor Author:Eugene V. Debs
“I am not a capitalist soldier; I am a proletarian revolutionist. I do not belong to the regular army of the plutocracy, but to the irregular army of the people. I refuse to obey any command to fight from the ruling class, but I will not wait to be commanded to fight for the working class. I am opposed to every war but one; I am for that war with heart and soul, and that is the world-wide war of social revolution. In that war I am prepared to fight in any way the ruling class may make necessary, even to the barricades.” PeopleWorldWayHeartMayWarSoulFightingSocialWaitingClassRevolutionArmyPreparedSoldierRefuseWideCommandCapitalistWorking ClassRulingHeart And SoulSocial RevolutionPlutocracyBarricades Author:Eugene V. Debs
“Private appropriation of the Earth’s surface, the natural resources, and the means of life is nothing less a crime than a crime against humanity, but the comparative few who are beneficiaries of this iniquitous social arrangement, far from being viewed as criminals meriting punishment, are the exalted rulers of society, and the people they exploit gladly render them homage and obeisance.” PeopleMeanEarthLife IsHumanitySocialNaturalCrimeResourcesSurfaceCriminalsPunishmentRulersArrangementsExploitsExaltedNatural ResourcesHomageAppropriationCrimes Against HumanityBeneficiaries Author:Eugene V. Debs
“If the people would but analyze the human equation of a prison they might better account for the crimes that are visited upon them in cities, towns, and hamlets, ofttimes by men who graduated with an education and equipment for just that sort of retributive service from some penal institution.” PeopleIfsMenHumansMightCitiesCrimeAccountsTownsInstitutionsPrisonEquipmentEquations Author:Eugene V. Debs
“The general public knows practically nothing about the prison and appears to be little concerned about how it is managed and how prisoners are treated.” PeopleKnowsLittlesConcernedPrisonTreatedPrisonerGeneral Public Author:Eugene V. Debs
