What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals so long as children are reared in the brutalizing influences of poverty, so long as the bite of want drives men to crime.

It is but a truism that labor is most productive where its wages are largest. Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.

We have made, and still are making, enormous advances on material lines. It is necessary that we commensurately advance on moral lines. Civilization, as it progresses, requires a higher conscience, a keener sense of justice, a warmer brotherhood, a wider, loftier, truer public spirit.

There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.

The people themselves must think, because the people alone can act.

God showers upon us his gifts-more than enough for all; But like swine scrambling for food, we tread them in the mire, and rend each other.