The great advantage to labor arising out of co-operative effort has been apparent to me for many years.

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.

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.

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.

May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early! My own plan is to swear off every kind of virtue, so that I triumph even when I fall!

You will never realize how precious a baby is until she keeps you awake through the whole night.

We must make humility the chief thing we admire in Him.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

i hate not knowing what i did." _Eric

The best advice on writing I've ever received is to take it seriously, because to do it well is all-consuming.

In every capitalist economy there are anti-capitalist movements, activists, and even political parties; in a way, that there are no longer anti-democratic movements, activists, and parties.

Would that God would make hell so real to us that we cannot rest; Heaven so real that we must have men there.

None of the great players has been so incomprehensible to the majority of amateurs and even masters, as Emanuel Lasker.

You can't do any better than your best.