Although as a sailor I despised politics - for I loved my sailor's life and still love it today - conditions forced me to take up a definite attitude towards political problems.

What would you do if your country's welfare depended on labor? When a ship is in a storm it requires one captain.

Slaves who are underfed, diseased, resentful, despairing, and filled with hate will never yield that maximum of output which they might achieve under normal conditions.

I had to examine myself very thoroughly to find the right path personally.

The controversies between the proletariat and the middle class had to be smoothed out and bridged over by each getting to know and understand the other.

As regards personal relationships I cannot say that I had any particularly personal intercourse with anyone.

The dissolution of the trade unions was in the air then.