The labor movement means just this: It is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.

To be as good as our fathers, we must be better. Imitation is not discipleship. When some one sent a cracked plate to China to have a set made, every piece in the new set had a crack in it.

No class is safe unless government is so arranged that each class has in its hands the means of protecting itself. That is the idea of republics.

Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.

My advice to a young man seeking deathless fame would be to espouse an unpopular cause and devote his life to it.

The press is the exclusive literature of the million; to them it is literature, church, and college.

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.