Eugene V. Debs Quotes


"It is better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don't want and get it."
- Eugene V. Debs
(Related: Vote, Want)

"While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free."
- Eugene V. Debs
(Related: Soul, Class, Prison)

"I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world."
- Eugene V. Debs
(Related: Country, Earth, Fight, World)

"Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation."
- Eugene V. Debs
(Related: Capitalism, Chicago)

"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."
- Eugene V. Debs
(Related: Work)

"The most heroic word in all languages is revolution."
- Eugene V. Debs
(Related: Revolution, Word)