Eugene V. Debs Quotes
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A traitor is good fruit to hang from the boughs of the tree of liberty.
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Those who are opposed to armed uprising ... must be ruthlessly kicked out as enemies, traitors and cowards.
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I cannot be a traitor, since I never swore fealty to the English king.
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...I feel like a traitor, a phony, a fake. But I am a hypocrite with the best intentions, and I need kissing desperately.
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Everyone who does not agree with me is a traitor and a scoundrel.
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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.
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I would rather be arrested as a traitor than fight a war for Wall Street.
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What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
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Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Once again, I think there is little art being done that really owns up to such intense possibilities.
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I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.
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One would have thought that it was even more necessary to limit population than property; and that the limit should be fixed by calculating the chances of mortality in the children, and of sterility in married persons. The neglect of this subject, which in existing states is so common, is a never-failing cause of poverty among the citizens; and poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
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Be true to yourself and you cannot be a traitor to any good cause on earth.
