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.

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.

Behind every argument is somebody's ignorance. Rediscover the foundation of truth and the purpose and causes of dispute immediately disappear.

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

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.

To be good Americans, we must be better Jews, and to be better Jews, we must become Zionists.

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