The employers cannot carry on industry nor accumulate profits if they have not got the good will of the workers or their acquiescence in carrying on such industry.

I have tried to kill sectarianism, whether in Catholics or Protestants.

There must be freedom for all to live, to think, to worship, no book, no avenue must be closed.

By God's help, and the intelligent use of their own strong right arms they could accomplish great things.

Those who want to divide the workers have resorted to the foulest methods.

A mutual arrangement, I repeat, is the only satisfactory medium whereby the present system can be carried on with any degree of satisfaction, and in such an arrangement the employers have more to gain than the workers.

The fate of you, the aristocracy of industry, will be as the fate of the aristocracy of land if you do not show that you have some humanity still among you.