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

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

All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike someone they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the cannon where one man will dare espouse an unpopular cause . . . True courage and manhood come from the consciousness of the right attitude toward the world, the faith in one's purpose, and the sufficiency of one's own approval as a justification for one's own acts.

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

The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.

There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.