“I who write have been as much to blame as any; let me shake off my blame by stirring you to awaken now.”

“…in our war-drunk age, with the patriotic frothing of the press, the brutality of the vigilantes and the general confusion of our life, Jefferson [prison] may yet prove a preferable retreat.”

“Were the retrogressive ideas of the Jewish Nationalists ever to materialize, the world would witness, after a few years, that one Jew is being persecuted by another.”

“Tremendous injustices and wrongs wilfully done are clearly seen; they exist and are at sight and have existed centuries before…”

“‘The War to end War,’ ‘the War for Democracy.’ What a lying face was hidden under the hideous mask of democracy.”

“The case of Palestine is an up-to-date instance of imperialism and its logical consequences.”

“The military power is the direct enemy of the working class and the support of the cowardly employing class.”

“And such forms can be realized only in narrow fields for varied purposes, or in vast fields for precise, well-defined and limited purposes.”

“Go over the pages of history, and in them you will find that in armed struggles in which the ruling classes have taken part, your role has always been that of cannon fodder…”

“… it is consoling, on the other hand, to see that the rich Yaqui region in the state of Sonora is under the control of the inhabitants of the area, the courageous, dignified and honorable Indians of the Yaqui tribe.”