When we fully understand the brevity of life, its fleeting joys and unavoidable pains; when we accept the facts that all men and women are approaching an inevitable doom: the consciousness of it should make us more kindly and considerate of each other. This feeling should make men and women use their best efforts to help their fellow travelers on the road, to make the path brighter and easier as we journey on. It should bring a closer kinship, a better understanding, and a deeper sympathy for the wayfarers who must live a common life and die a common death.

Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.

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.

I am an agnostic as to the question of God.

For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.

Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.

The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.