The greatest factors making for communism, socialism or anarchy among a free people are the excesses of capital. The talk of the agitator does not advance socialism one step. The great captains of industry and finance... are the chief makers of socialism.

If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.

There are no shortcuts in evolution.

Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards. They did not fear political change. They did not exalt order at the cost of liberty.

If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.

I think all of our human Experience shows that no one with absolute power can be trusted to give it up even in part

Strong, responsible unions are essential to industrial fair play. Without them the labor bargain is wholly one-sided. The parties to the labor contract must be nearly equal in strength if justice is to be worked out, and this means that the workers must be organized and that their organizations must be recognized by employers as a condition precedent to industrial peace.