It is when you have done your work honestly, when you have contributed your share to the common fund that you begin to live.

Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation.

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

The general public knows practically nothing about the prison and appears to be little concerned about how it is managed and how prisoners are treated.

Some go to prison for stealing, and others for believing that a better system can be provided and maintained than one that makes it necessary for a man to steal in order to live.

Labor is today the most vital and potential power this planet has ever known, and its historic mission of emancipating the workers of the world from the thraldom of the ages is as certain of ultimate realization as is the setting of the sun.

The rights of one are as sacred as the rights of a million.