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

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?

Workingmen are at the foundation of society. Show me that product of human endeavor in the making of which the workingman has had no share, and I will show you something that society can well dispense with.

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

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

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

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