Eugene V. Debs Quote

They are continually talking about your patriotic duty. It is not their but your patriotic duty that they are concerned about. There is a decided difference. Their patriotic duty never takes them to the firing line or chucks them into the trenches.
And now among other things they are urging you to "cultivate" war gardens, while at the same time a government war report just issued shows that practically 52 percent of the arable, tillable soil is held out of use by the landlords, speculators and profiteers. They themselves do not cultivate the soil. Nor do they allow others to cultivate it. They keep it idle to enrich themselves, to pocket the millions of dollars of unearned increment.


The Canton, Ohio Speech, Anti-War Speech (1918)


They are continually talking about your patriotic duty. It is not their but your patriotic duty that they are concerned about. There is a decided...

They are continually talking about your patriotic duty. It is not their but your patriotic duty that they are concerned about. There is a decided...

They are continually talking about your patriotic duty. It is not their but your patriotic duty that they are concerned about. There is a decided...

They are continually talking about your patriotic duty. It is not their but your patriotic duty that they are concerned about. There is a decided...