Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.

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

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.

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

It is not from top to bottom that societies die; it is from bottom to top.

Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.

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