Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.

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.

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.

I come to a world of iron to make a world of gold.

Being loved is the problem, because love is a demand - when you're loved, someone wants more of you.

Do you know, by the way, that German is the only language in the world that has a word for ‘pleasure derived from the misfortune of others’? Schadenfreude.

Two can keep secret if the one is dead. (A Good Marriage by Stephen King)

America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!

You never know what you can do until you try, and very few try unless they have to.

We are all fallen creatures and all very hard to live with.

There is no reason not to support energy exploration in ANWR.

Perspective should be learned - and then forgotten. The residue - a sensitivity to perspective - helps perception, varying with each individual and determined by his responsive needs.

All that means is that it wasn't personal to you. But it was personal to me.