No lasting gain has ever come from compulsion.

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

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

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

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

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

Our movement is of the working people, for the working people, by the working people. . . . There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish.