The economic owning class is always the political ruling class.

I would no more teach children military training than teach them arson, robbery, or assassination.

Yes, I am my brother's keeper. I am under a moral obligation to him that is inspired, not by any maudlin sentimentality but by the higher duty I owe myself. What would you think me if I were capable of seating myself at a table and gorging myself with food and saw about me the children of my fellow beings starving to death?

When I rise it will be with the ranks, and not from the ranks.

I would not be a Moses to lead you into the Promised Land, because if I could lead you into it, someone else could lead you out of it.

You have got to unite in the same labor union and in the same political party and strike and vote together, and the hour you do that, the world is yours.

In all the history of organized labor, from the earliest times to the present day, no body of union workingmen ever served in a more humiliating and debasing role than that in which the railway unions appear at this very hour before the American people and the world.