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 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.

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.

The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.

Goldie was a believer in the imperial project, which is to say, in the civilising power of social progress.

Do not grow old, no matter how long you live.

Iran's continued pursuit of nuclear weapons, support for international terrorist organizations, and abhorrent human rights practices pose one of the greatest threats to global security.

You can make peace with an enemy, if the enemy abandons the idea of destroying you. That is the critical test. Democracies fail to understand what I just said.

I'm blessed. I have a 13-year-old girl's eye and a 14 year-old boy's eye. I've been given the gift of sight by people who decided to donate organs. I try to do as much organ-donor work as I can.

Religion is not 'doctrinal knowledge,' but wisdom born of personal experience.

My earliest experiences in meditation were in a context of intensive retreats.

Do not go through life like leaf blown from here to there believing whatever you are told.

Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.

If you make mistakes that is alright because we all make mistakes and we learn from those mistakes. You gain confidence from learning, failing and rising again.