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.

He who by an exertion of mind or body, adds to the aggregate of enjoyable wealth, increases the sum of human knowledge, or gives to human life higher elevation or greater fullness - he is, in the larger meaning of the words, a " producer," a " working man," a " laborer," and is honestly earning honest wages.

He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.

Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.

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

Everybody works but the vacant lot

Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force, and labor is therefore the employer of capital.