“ I shall buy nothing that I cannot afford to lose, that I cannot leave behind, nothing that has not been made possible by the united effort, the united intelligence, the united needs of all—nothing so sacred that I cannot share it with you if you choose to use it.
To have nothing is to have all things, to be free from the possession of things is to be unpossessed. ”

“ The revolutionist applies the torch, but not, as did the Roman emperor, for the sake of enjoying the shifting colors of the flames and following with his eye the black spirals of smoke as they are blown hither and thither by the wind.
The Mexican people are in arms because they must play the game to the finish in order to save themselves and future generations from that economic slavery whence spring all tyrannies. Neither Madero nor any other man can give the people what they need—Bread. They can decree liberty of speech, liberty of assembly, liberty of conscience, etc., etc. ”

“ What right has the American government to intervene in matters that are not its own?
We long for liberty and well-being; we have no desire to be slaves; we wish to be free, and free in an effective manner; and, inasmuch as is because of this the Revolution is prolonging itself—since a true Revolution cannot be brought to a termination within a single year—Mexico's exploiters are now urging their government to hurl itself against human beings who are struggling and sacrificing themselves solely for the betterment and advancement of their lot.—From the Spanish of Richard Flores Magon. ”

“ They loved Liberty more than life—Humanity more than self. They were not for themselves, they were for the race. The miseries of mankind were their miseries. Their sensitive natures felt the palsied hand of oppression when it touched a fellow being at the furtherest confines of the earth. The sorrows of the workers were their sorrows. ”

“ It is to the martyrs we must bow for the progress the world has made. Without them human society would stagnate/ degenerate and die. Yet it is the history of mankind that every man or woman with a message of vital importance to the race has been persecuted, burned or hanged.
The Chicago Martyrs were no exception to this general rule. They were born ahead of their time, and because of that they died at the hands of an ignorant age incapable of understanding them. For it is as true today as it has been at any age in the past that the world fears what it cannot understand. ”

“ Your attitude is well illustrated in your answer to Comrade Alexander's inquiry when you write: "The one who understands the fight to be an important one will give. The one who don't won't give," and you advise him not to lose his temper.
Now, I cannot for the life of me see how an Anarchist editor, a propagandist in the cause of freedom, can sit tack in his chair and assume the cool indifference of a bourgois, and advise his justly indignant subscribers to keep cool, while the very liberty that enables him to publish his paper is being ground under the iron heel of governmental tyranny. ”

“ Syndicalism has no other program than pure selfishness and it does not try to embellish it with any pretenses or make it appear beautiful by smooth words. It is individualistic in all its aims, which are to secure the well being of each of its members, but is socialistic in its methods. It has realized that isolated egotism has no chance of success and that, to force its way through, it must organize the masses. ”

“ Once more the sword of the United States is suspended over the Mexican people's neck. "The Mexicans are incapable of self-government," say all the adventurers who wish to make millions by exploiting the labor and natural wealth of Mexico.
Madero has promised to hand over to Americans the liberties of Mexico; and, in addition, the land, the woods, the mines, the waters, all Mexico itself. Naturally, the Americans are on Madero's side. ”

“ He knows the bosses do not believe in their own dope, and will break the law when the law will not break the workers. His object in making a noise about the lawlessness of the law enforcers is to awaken the indifferent worker, who is blinded by the theory that all men are treated fairly and equally by the administrators of the law.
He wants this backward fellow slave to know that the virtuous howl for law and order is raised only when a slave, goaded by want and oppression, steps over the legal boundary line, striving thereby to get the justice whicn the code denies him. ”

“ Much of the labor is given free. On the whole it is a work of love—the love of the idea, of a world fit for the free.
People are rich, not in the fact of their possessing great wealth, bat in the degree to which they possess freedom. ”

“ The utter foolishness of attempting to suppress an idea by striking down the innocent messenger who conveys it to the world is quite apparent. It never occurs to the ignorant defenders of status quo that by hanging a man on the gallows they hang his ideas on the stars. ”

“ Madero is impotent to bring into submission all the elements opposing him. He would play the dictator, the strong man with the hand of iron, and the result is that he is a nutshell floating aimlessly upon a storm-tossed sea. In his despair, in his utter dejection, he begs from the Colossus of the North what the Mexican people will not give him—its support. He does as Diaz did.
The people are not rebelling for the pleasure of rebelling. The revolutionist is not tearing the life out of his enemies for the satisfaction of witnessing a spectacle of bloodshed. ”

“ The Executive Council of the A. F. of L. has issued a long statement apologizing for its connection with the McNamara defense, from which we quote:
"The men of organized labor, in common with all our people, are grieved beyond expression in words at the loss of life, and the destruction of property, not only in the case under discussion, but in any other case which may have occurred. We are hurt and humiliated to think that any man connected with the labor movement should have been guilty of either. ”

“ A rebel has no time or place for property; it is a snare, an unnecessary responsibility; a troublesome obligation; and respectabilities and obligations are two of the subtlest remnants of a rotten, capitalistic moral system.
The surest way to have a thing done is to do it yourself; the quickest way to do away with the sacredness of property is to begin at home. ”

“ Yet India's present oppression and humiliation by the British barbarians is the outcome of an oppression and tyranny and a foolish system of cast that the natives have submitted to and enforced these thousands of years.
Tyranny always begets tyranny. We see our own faults best when reflected from others. It is to be hoped that when the people of India accumulate sufficient power to cast off the British they will also discard the native tyrants and become really free. ”

“ When the workers began to organize by trades, the bourgeoisie, who were masters of the law and had control of government and administration, did not understand what was going on. It favored this evolution, it granted the laborers the right to organize and unite, authorized the grouping of the unions into a national organization, placed labor exchanges at their disposal and helped the work financially. ”

“ Why shouldn't I ask and why shouldn't I ask everybody else to ask himself: Isn't this group right? Isn't force the only way? Isn't the demand of society for revenge upon the dynamiters very like the demand of these men for revenge upon society? ”

“ You surely must see the importance of holding on to the speck of liberty which enables us to publish our views to the world, and I am sure you do not consciously mean to stand idly by and let others fight to maintain that little liberty, without giving a helping hand. ”

“ The Mexican people are taking possession of their on country's natural wealth; and this fact, coupled with the revolutionary effervescence now clearly observable, has caused the American speculator to cry to heaven and proclaim that Mexico should be acquired by the United States, at any price.
Madero being naturally weak, as Diaz was, is seeking the aid of the American government, that he may maintain himself in power. To this end it has been necessary for him to agree to the American bourgeoisie's demand for slavery in Mexico. ”

“ Personally, I am quite averse to dealing with the law, and am ready to go to jail for my opinions without annoying the general public with my troubles. But I cannot see the logic of a Revolutionist laying down and submitting to the courts as soon as he is gathered into its meshes. Such conduct would be consistent for a Tolstoyian, but a Revolutionist will never give up the fight. ”

“ The Free Speech League believes that every obstacle should be cast in the way of the capitalist opponents of free expression before submitting and that the widest publicity be given every such case, that public attention may be awakened and that what little freedom of speech we have should not be surrendered without a stubborn fight. ”

“ That the master class have no more fear of the Socialist "victories at the polls" than of the other parties is well attested by the capitalist press. The New York World, in speaking of these "victories," says: "There is nothing to worry about in these Socialist gains, if the old parties will not give good local government they must expect new parties to grow up and get votes." ”

“ It is a fight in which the one who is attacked has everything at stake and in which defeat means absolute annihilation to him, physically and morally. Those who make the attack are absolutely devoid of the inherited, almost sacred, respect for existing institutions, which is the most efficient bulwark of existing society. ”

“ We are no better than the religious folks who sing and talk of the home over there; we talk of the good day coming when men shall be free and keep on putting off the day by worshipping at the shrine of sacred private property. ”

“ They know that in war all things are fair. They know that laws are made to govern the poor. When the law is not sufficient to suppress them, the masters apply the kind of force that is not legalized by the legislature. ”

“ A workingman need possess only the most rudimentary intelligence to be able to understand you when you say to him: "The welfare of the community means nothing to you, therefore, stop thinking of it, and devote all your efforts to further your own personal welfare, to get all you can possibly get your hands on. Get all the enjoyment you possibly can out of life, and do so with the least amount of work possible." "Syndicalism" also has a philosophy, as has indeed every movement of the masses ”

“ It has been the peasants, reckless and fully conscious of their power, who have descended upon those in possession, measured the force of resistance and taken from them what they were no longer able to defend. ”

“ That the Association of Workers does not pretend to believe in even the ghost of an ideal is evident to the most simple minded observer, even to the one who is only slightly superior to the animal world. ”

“ The Journal of Political Economy tells its capitalist readers this pertinent truth: "The average Socialist begins as a theoretical impossibilist and developes gradually into a constructive opportunist. Add a taste of real respectability and he is hard to distinguish from a liberal reformer. It is the same with the movement."
Capitalistic Law and Order.
While the labor leaders are busy repudiating the McNamaras and all acts of violence, the lumber barons of Aberdeen are having men dragged from their hall, blindfolded, taken to the town limits, slugged, and left there to die. ”

“ They wept for the children torn from the play ground and thrust into the factories to grind out dollars to fill the gluttonous maw of mammon.
The nobility and heroism of their lives is an inspiration, a great poem that awakens our energies and fires us with hope and desires for the achievement of the ideal they died for. ”

“ They do not understand them and merely laugh at them. In Rome, they pull the beards of the senators sitting on their chairs of office, they invade the temple, of Appollo at Delphi, they upset the altars, break the statues of the gods and take possession of the treasuries ”

“ The Socialist press joined with the labor and capitalist press in a cowardly denunciation of the McNamara brothers. The California Social-Democrat says:
"That men with the brains of a mosquito could be guilty of playing into the hands of the enemy by violence is inconceivable to a Socialist. ”

“ The abolition of misery means the abolition of the rich man's right to retain in his possession the land, the machinery of production and the means of transportation. All this the rich man will not let go of from kindheartedness, but only through being forced. ”

“ Beer is the choloroform that enables the laborer to endure the severe operation of living; that is why we can always assure one another over our wine that the rascal's misery is due to his habit of drinking. We are down on him for it, because if he could bear his life without beer, we should save his beer money—get him for lower wages. In short, we should be richer and he soberer. ”

“ The subordination of the individual to an organization, in which each member cares only for himself regardless of what happens to all the others, seems a paradox, but it is simply modern—the employment of dynamic laws of modern societies. ”