If we grow old wisely, we lay aside the senseless forms and meaningless conventions of society and go back to a more primitive mode of social intercourse, picking our friends the way children do, - because we like them, - spending time enough with them to get some real good out of them.

We all marry strangers. All men are strangers to all women.

... no one knows anything about a strike until he has seen it break down into its component parts of human beings.

All the laws made for the betterment of workers' lives have their origin with the workers. Hours are shortened,wages go up, conditions are better----only if the workers protest

We can always find noble reasons for what we want to do.

any peace movement must have behind it a higher passion than the desire for war.

When a new idea assaults the power of established authority, authority always screams out that morality has been affronted. It makes no difference if this idea is that the world is round or that women should vote or that the workers should control industry.