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"The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known."
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"The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century."

"Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country."

"What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country."

"A house in the country is not the same as a country house."

"Every nation must have prayerful men and women to intercede for the country's well-being."
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"It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear."

"The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capitalist isolation."

"Du Bois marked a great stage in the history of Negro struggles when he said that Negroes could no longer accept the subordination which Booker T. Washington had preached."

"In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism."

"Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation."

"I was a Labour Party man but I found myself to the left of the Labour party in Nelson, militant as that was. I came to London and in a few months I was a Trotskyist."

"The late development of mass industrial organization in the United States has both stimulated and retarded the political development of the American working class."

"The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage."
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