A small, compact core, consisting of reliable, experienced and hardened workers, with responsible agents†connected byall therules of strict secrecy with the organisations of revolutionists, can, with the wide support of the masses and without an elaborate set of rules, perform all the functions of a trade union.

-Lenin,Vladimir Ilyich originally Vladimir IlyichUlyanov
  What Is to be Done?

I always claim the mission workers came out too early to catch any sinners on this part of Broadway. At such an hour the sinners are still in bed resting up from their sinning of thenight before, so they will be ingood shape for more sinning a little later on.

-Runyon, (Alfred) Damon
  Runyon a'   la Carte,'The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown'.

   When we, the Workers, all demand: What are WE fighting for? Then we'll end that stupid crime, that devil's madnessöWar.

-Service, Robert William
Ballads of a Bohemian,'Michael'.

We know that you, the organized workers of the country, are our friends† As for the rest, they do not matter a tinker's curse.

-Shinwell, Emanuel Shinwell, Baron
  Trade union conference,7 May.

Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new: That which they have done but earnest of the things that they shall do: For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be; Saw the heaven fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rained a ghastly dew From the nations'airy navies grappling in the central blue; Far along the world-wide whisper of the south-wind rushing warm, Ulysses With the standards of the peoples plunging through the thunder-storm; Till the war-drum throbbed no longer, and the battle- flags were furled In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world.

-Tennyson
  Poems,'Locksley Hall', l.117^28.