My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing.

I would fight God Almighty Himself if He didn't play square with me

...Poetic injustice...having made over Japan in our own image. The Japanese, ...are now, next to us, the greatest consumers of meat in the world.

I know that there are no limits to which the powers of privilege will not go to keep the workers in slavery

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

And who is responsible for this appalling child slavery? Everyone.

I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.