[The labor movement is] a movement of the working people, for the working people, by the working people, governed by ourselves, with its policies determined by ourselves.

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.

It's good to let God pick a man for you. We don't do so well when we pick them ourselves. They end up lipsticks in a drawer, all those wrong colors you thought looked so good in the package.

God did not call the qualified to serve Him: instead He qualified the called.

Man's will, sustained by an indominable conviction, is much more powerful than material forces that seem insurmountable.

The mind is incredible. Once you've gained mastery over it, channelling its powers positively, for your purpose you can do anything.

I learned a lot about critics, not to really take them too seriously about movies.

Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.

Pie...it fills the cracks of the heart. Go away, pain.

The most dangerous kind of girl involvement with gangs is one where the girls are just sort of hanging around the gang boys or even being part of the male gang.

Personally, I don't pick books for how people think about me. I read books so I can learn.

The only thing that kept me out of college was high school.