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.

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

Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards.

The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles.

Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.

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

The tax-exempt privilege is a feature always reflected in the market price of [municipal] bonds. The investor pays for it.