84 Quotes by Eugene V. Debs

The class which has the power to rob upon a large scale has also the power to control the government and legalize their robbery.

The American people can have anything they want; the trouble is, they don’t know what they want.

Beware of capitalism’s politicians and preachers! They are the lineal descendants of the hypocrites of old who all down the ages have guarded the flock in the name of patriotism and religion and secured the choicest provender and the snuggest booths for themselves by turning the sheep over to the ravages of the wolves.

Capitalism needs and must have the prison to protect itself from the criminals it has created.

I would rather a thousand times be a free soul in jail than to be a sycophant and coward in the streets.

Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.

I am for Socialism because I am for humanity.

I am guilty of believing that the human race can be humanized and enriched in every spiritual inference through the saner and more beneficent processes of peaceful persuasion applied to material problems rather than through wars, riots and bloodshed.

Riches are the savings of many in the hands of one.