You can't get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.

Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.

The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.

With all their faults, trade-unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed.

The time will come when all people will view with horror light way in which society and its courts of law now take human life; and when that time comes, the way will be clear to device some better method of dealing with poverty and ignorance and their frequent byproducts, which we call crime.

With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in men, than any other association of men.