We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them see finer things than they had seen before, to get rid of the things that divide and to make sure of the things that unite.

There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.

We forget that there is much more patriotism in having the audacity to differ from the majority than in running before the crowd; we forget that in the resistance of the minority some of the biggest things in our own history have been accomplished, and the man who looks on the Stars and Stripes and doesn't hold a right to say nay to his neighbor, even if the neighbor is of the larger party, has forgotten the history of his country.

There is here a great melting pot in which we must compound a precious metal. That metal is the metal of nationality.

Only a peace between equals can last. Only a peace the very principle of which is equality and a common participation in a common benefit.

Movies are like writing history with lightning.

Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper's that make an ordered life impossible.