Eugene V. Debs Quotes

Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.

While there is a lower class I am in it. While there is a criminal element I am of it. While there is a soul in prison I am not free.

While there is a lower class, I am in it. While there is a criminal element, I am of it.While there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

Sooner or later every war of trade becomes a war of blood.

In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the People.", June 16, 1918)