One of the great reasons for the popularity of strikes is that they give the suppressed self a sense of power. For once the human tool knows itself a man, able to stand up and speak a word or strike a blow.

Freedom is the opportunity for right development, for development in accordance with the progressive ideal of life that we have in conscience.

Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for it within the existing institutions he will be likely to make trouble.

Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.

Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling.

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.