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 man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day.

Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.

To be free, the workers must have choice. To have choice they must retain in their own hands the right to determine under what conditions they will work.

The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish.

The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce.

Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.

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

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

Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.

You can't weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.

Man wasn't made to share the universe with gods.

Do not say "It is morning " and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.

I'm fascinated by the idea of disparate, difficult people learning to trust each other when they're thrust into hellish circumstances.

No Roman ever died in contemplation over a geometrical diagram.

It's just so hard sometimes to work out where people stand on these things. I mean, isn't the Pope a feminist?

You know I'm not hung up on this liberating myself from the "black" man - I'm not going to try that thing.

Perhaps the universe is nothing but an equilibrium of idiocies.

We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!

You can't take credit for talent; you can only take credit for using it.

Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.