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

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

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

So long as there is one [person] who seeks employment and cannot find it, the hours of work are too long.

The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce.

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.