The employee is regarded by the employer merely in the light of his value as an operative. His productive capacity alone is taken into account.

Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle that men are endowed with inalienable rights.

The real conflict, if any exists, is between two industrial systems.

I have always been fully persuaded that, through co-operation, labor could become its own employer.

All legislative experiments in the way of making forcible distribution of the wealth produced in any country have failed.

Each co-operative institution will become a school of business in which each member will acquire a knowledge of the laws of trade and commerce.

The right of each individual in any relation to secure to himself the full benefits of his intelligence, his capacity, his industry and skill are among the inalienable inheritances of humanity.

When money is controlled by a few it gives that few an undue power and control over labor and the resources of the country. Labor will have its best return when the laborer can control its disposal.

Money is the great tool through whose means labor and skill become universally co-operative.

Each individual member of a co-operative society works with that interest which is inseparable from the new position he enjoys. Each has an interest in the other.

Laboring men can perform for themselves the office of becoming their own employers.

Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place. Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place.

Charter schools are public schools. They're paid for publicly and they're part of the public system. They just have a more independent structure.

I should like to be famous and unknown.

Beauty is our business.

Coming in as a veteran, I'd like to finish with a gold medal.

Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth.

The haiku lets meaning float; the aphorism pins it down.

He said, "People wait their whole lives for the kind of happiness we have.

I studied voice at Yale with Blake Stern from the music school, and he had me singing German lieder and Italian songs.

The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost.