The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.

All the laws made for the betterment of workers' lives have their origin with the workers. Hours are shortened,wages go up, conditions are better----only if the workers protest

any peace movement must have behind it a higher passion than the desire for war.

I am trying for nothing so hard in my own personal life as how not to be respectable when married.

... peace is a militant thing ... any peace movement must have behind it a higher passion than the desire for war. No one can be a pacifist without being ready to fight for peace and die for peace.

In the last analysis civilization itself is measured by the way in which children will live and what chance they will have in the world

We can always find noble reasons for what we want to do.

Gathering news in Russia was like mining coal with a hat pin.

It was the spirit of the workers that was dangerous. The tired, gray crowds ebbing and flowing perpetually into the mills had waked and opened their mouths to sing.

We all marry strangers. All men are strangers to all women.

... no one knows anything about a strike until he has seen it break down into its component parts of human beings.

We don't have time for such uncertainty because it reliably breeds indecision, and indecision is one of the mothers of failure.

Conversation enriches the understanding but solitude is the school of genius.

When I wake up on a Monday morning and I realise I don't have to go and work at the civil service, I really think I've won.

It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something.

I was crushingly bored talking about politics 30 hours a week.

We've spent so much time judging what other people created that we've created very, very little of our own.

For the present you can just call me the Kingfish.

Men are always much more dignified than most women.

Curiosity allows your unique "owned processes" to draw you toward creative conclusions.

Doing something unimportant well does not make it important.