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.

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

Anyone who critically analyzes a business learns this: that the success or failure of an enterprise depends usually upon one man.

In a democracy, the most important office is the office of citizen

I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an average of three meals per day, but that is not a good way to live.

It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.

Sunshine is the best disinfectant