Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.

Revolutions are not made: they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back.

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

Hearts are stronger than swords.

Great political questions stir the deepest nature of one-half the nation, but they pass far above and over the heads of the other half.

Organize, and stand together. Claim something together, and at once; let the nation hear a united demand from the laboring voice, and then, when you have got that, go on after another; but get something.

The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.