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.

As it is with an individual, so it is with a nation. One must produce to have, or one will become a have-not.

How can a man be said to have a country when he has not right of a square inch of it.

Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.

The state, it cannot too often be repeated, does nothing, and can give nothing, which it does not take from somebody.

The equal right of all men to the use of land is as clear as their equal right to breathe the air it is a right proclaimed by the fact of their existence. For we cannot suppose that some men have a right to be in this world, and others no right.

Everybody works but the vacant lot