I was searching for a pdf of We the Living, because of the great quote in the novel wherein a proletariat worker says something to the effect that '...we were promised that they would get that boot off our necks, but instead it turned out to be a bigger boot".

Couldn't find a pdf, but found this quote from the book: (On Wayback):

“Can you sacrifice a few? When those few are the best? Deny the best its right to the top--and you have no best left. What are your masses but millions of dull, shriveled, stagnant souls that have no thoughts of their own, no dreams of their own, no will of their own, who eat and sleep and chew helplessly the words others put into their brains? And for those you would sacrifice the few who know life, who are life? I loathe your ideals because I know no worse injustice than the giving of the undeserved. Because men are not equal in ability and one can't trust them as if they were.”