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

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

You can't weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.

We will stand by our friends and administer a stinging rebuke to men or parties who are either indifferent, negligent, or hostile, and, wherever opportunity affords, to secure the election of intelligent, honest, earnest trade unionists, with clear, unblemished, paid-up union cards in their possession.

The periods of unemployment accompanying depression in the business cycle . . . present a challenge to all our claims to progress, humanity, and civilization.

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.

The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.