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

Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.

Punishment as punishment is not admissible unless the offender has had the freewill to select his course.

Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.

The consideration and kindness shown by unfortunates to each other are surprising to those who have no experience with this class of men. Often to find real sympathy you must go to those who know what misery means.

The audience that storms the box-office of the theater to gain entrance to a sensational show is small and sleepy compared with the throng that crashes the courthouse door when something concerning real life and death is to be laid bare to the public.

I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.