I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.

A jury is more apt to be unbiased and independent than a court, but they very seldom stand up against strong public clamor. Judges naturally believe the defendant is guilty.

If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.

I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.

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.

Those who enjoy the emotion of hating are much like the groups who sate their thirst for blood by hunting and hounding to death helpless animals as an outlet for their emotions.