Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.

Why should the wealth of the country be stored in banks and elevators while the idle workman wanders homeless about the streets and the idle loafers who hoard the gold only to spend it on riotous living are rolling about in fine carriages from which they look out on peaceful meetings and call them riots?

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 man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day.

Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.

The working people know no country. They are citizens of the world.