Samuel Gompers has spent his life trying to keep labor from working too hard and has succeeded beyond his wildest dreams.

The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn't go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he's got.

I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.

Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.

The minute a thing is long and complicated, it confuses. Whoever wrote the Ten Commandments made 'em short. They may not always be kept, but they are understood.

I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do.

All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.