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.

Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards.

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

People fear witches, and burn women.

Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.

No system of regulation can safely be substituted for the operation of individual liberty as expressed in competition.

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