Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.

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

The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish.

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

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.

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

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