Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.

Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.

The freedom of speech and the freedom of the press have not been granted to the people in order that they may say things which please, and which are based upon accepted thought, but the right to say the things which displease, the right to say the things which convey the new and yet unexpected thoughts, the right to say things, even though they do a wrong.

No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money

Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion

There are such wonderful possibilities in the life of each man and woman! No human being is unimportant. My inspiration comes in opening opportunities that all alike may be free to live life to the fullest.

It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.