Voting is the foundation stone for political action.

The job of the school is to teach so well that family background is no longer an issue.

The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress. Out of its bold struggles, economic and social reform gave birth to unemployment insurance, old age pensions, government relief for the destitute, and, above all, new wage levels that meant not mere survival but a tolerable life.

If I hit you and you hit me and I hit you back and you hit me back and go on, you see, that goes on ad infinitum. It just never ends. Somewhere somebody must have a little sense, and that's the strong person.

It is hardly a moral act to encourage others patiently to accept injustice which he himself does not endure.

Peace is not merely the absence of war but the presence of justice, of law, of order —in short, of government.

In this world is a God whose matchless strength is a fit contrast to the sordid weakness of man.