I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing … - Eugene V. Debs

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States will never be happy until rulers become philosophers or philosophers become rulers.

Eugene V. Debs

I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.

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