I have no earthly use for the Junkers of Germany, and not one particle more use for the Junkers in the United States. This is too much, even for a joke. These are the gentry who are today wrapped up in the American flag, who shout their claim from the housetops that they are the only patriots, and who have their magnifying glasses in hand, scanning the country for evidence of disloyalty, eager to apply the brand of treason to the men who dare to even whisper their opposition to junker rule in the United States.
Socialism is a growing idea, an expanding philosophy.
It is spreading over the entire face of the earth. It is as vain to resist it as it would be to arrest the sunrise on the morrow. Wars throughout history have been waged for conquest and plunder. . . . The feudal barons of the Middle Ages, the economic predecessors of the capitalists of our day, declared all wars. And their miserable serfs fought all the battles.