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.

If the people would but analyze the human equation of a prison they might better account for the crimes that are visited upon them in cities, towns, and hamlets, ofttimes by men who graduated with an education and equipment for just that sort of retributive service from some penal institution.

The truth has always been dangerous to the rule of the rogue, the exploiter, the robber. So the truth must be supressed.

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

Be true to yourself and you cannot be a traitor to any good cause on earth.

When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.

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