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

The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.

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.

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.

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

Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough.

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