Eugene V. Debs Quotes

Be true to yourself and you cannot be a traitor to any good cause on earth.

Eugene V. Debs

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• A traitor is good fruit to hang from the boughs of the tree of liberty.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Tree
  • Liberty
  • Fruit

• Those who are opposed to armed uprising ... must be ruthlessly kicked out as enemies, traitors and cowards.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Enemy
  • Coward
  • Traitor

• I cannot be a traitor, since I never swore fealty to the English king.

  

  William Wallace
  • Kings
  • Traitor

• ...I feel like a traitor, a phony, a fake. But I am a hypocrite with the best intentions, and I need kissing desperately.

  

  Coco J. Ginger
  • Fake
  • Hypocrite
  • Traitor

• Everyone who does not agree with me is a traitor and a scoundrel.

  

  George III
  • Agree
  • Traitor
  • Scoundrel

• Jason Bourne was the name of someone in American military intelligence—a traitor who was shot dead for his crime. When the present Bourne was recruited into Treadstone he was given the name of the dead man.

  

  Eric Van Lustbader
  • Name
  • Crime
  • Traitor

• I would rather be arrested as a traitor than fight a war for Wall Street.

  

  Eugene V. Debs
  • Fight
  • Wall Street
  • Traitor

• What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

  

  Aristotle
  • Power
  • Lies
  • Do

• Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Soul
  • Virtue
  • Politeness

• The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Company
  • Shows
  • Stealing

• My aim is to give you only the things with which I am completely satisfied, even if it means asking you a little more [time] for them... for if I were to do otherwise I'd turn into a mere painting machine and you would be landed with a pile of incomplete work which would put off the most enthusiastic of art collectors.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Aim
  • Satisfied
  • Collectors

• I try to find nice chord changes, that's how I love to start, and then I start trying to knock it into a song, knock it into shape.

  

  Jeff Lynne Electric Light Orchestra
  • Trying
  • Song
  • Nice

• I want everybody to find meaning in whatever they do. That's the only purpose to life, actually. Let that meaning be so strong that you can't not wake up every day and be like, "Yep, this is what I gotta do, let's keep it moving" and not be disgruntled about it, and start using other people as excuses for why you're not creating a better life for yourself.

  

  Ryan Guzman
  • People
  • Strong
  • Moving

• I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Fear
  • Conservative
  • Radical

• It is love and friendship, the sanctity and celebration of our relationships, that not only support a good life, but create one. Through friendships, we spark and inspire one another's ambitions.

  

  Wallace Stegner
  • Love
  • Friendship
  • Relationships

• In fact, everything I do is about the conceptualizing and realization of a piece of work, whether it's the recording or the performance side.

  

  David Bowie
  • Facts
  • Performances
  • Realization

• You are what you are seen to be.

  

  Erik Spiekermann
  • Design

• Be true to yourself and you cannot be a traitor to any good cause on earth.

  

  Eugene V. Debs
  • Traitor
  • Good Causes