In differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress.

The old idea of a good bargain was a transaction in which one man got the better of another. The new idea of a good contract is a transaction which is good for both parties to it.

Strong, responsible unions are essential to industrial fair play. Without them the labor bargain is wholly one-sided.

We gain nothing by trading the tyranny of capital for the tyranny of labor.

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

What I have desired to do is to make the people of Boston realize that the most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen.

History is not life, but since only life makes history, the union of the two is obvious.