The employment of children is doing more to fill prisons, insane asylums, almshouses, reformatories, slums, and gin shops than all the efforts of reformers are doing to improve society.

What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union.

Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts.

You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.

I'm not a humanitarian, I'ma hell-raiser.

Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination

I believe that no man who holds a leader's position should ever accept favors from either side. He is then committed to show favors. A leader must stand alone.