I don't want boys to use their pencils for improper writing.

You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters.

Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it.

I am not ashamed to say that I am the son of a washerwoman.

I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects.

I must firmly adhere to the views I have held and practice, that Socialism to succeed must be practical, tolerant, cohesive and consciously compromising with Progressive forces running, if not so far, in parallel lines towards its own goal.

I am depressed rather at the wave of brutality sweeping over the country.