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.

Most lawyers only tell you about the cases they win. I can tell you about some I lose. A lawyer who wins all his cases does not have many.

Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.

No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.

Great wealth often curses all who touch it.

One believes in the truthfulness of a man because of his long experience with the man, and because the man has always told a consistent story. But no man has told so consistent a story as nature.

As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.