If you would have the slave show the virtues of the freeman, you must first make him free.

There are people into whose heads it never enters to conceive of any better state of society than that which now exists.

The value of a thing is the amount of laboring or work that its possession will save the possessor.

Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.

So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and make sharper the contrast between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.

Everybody works but the vacant lot

For every social wrong there must be a remedy. But the remedy can be nothing less than the abolition of the wrong.