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I am not the champion of lost causes, but the champion of causes not yet won.

If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag; wash it.

The doctrine of thrift for the poor is dumb and cruel, like advising them to try and lift themselves by their bootstraps.

Peace will never be entirely secure until men everywhere have learned to conquer poverty without sacrificing liberty or security.

All our rulers have said that war is unthinkable, and then we think about it almost all the time. We've got to make it unthinkable.

I walk where I choose to walk.

Rebellion per se is not a virtue. If it were, we would have some heroes on very low levels.

I always get more applause than votes.

I now see Norman Thomas as indeed a liberal, but as a real, old-fashioned, unreconstructed liberal who believes in freedom and justice for everybody.

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

He who would save liberty must put his trust in democracy.