“I will tell the truth wherever I please.”

“I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword.”

“I have never had a vote, and I have raised hell all over this country. You don't need a vote to raise hell! You need convictions and a voice!”

“I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.”

“A lady is the last thing on earth I want to be. Capitalists sidetrack the women into clubs and make ladies of them.”

“My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong.”

“The employment of children is doing more to fill prisons, insane asylums, almshouses, reformatories, slums, and gin shops than all the efforts of reformers are doing to improve society.”