The labor movement is organized upon a principle that the strong shall help the weak.

If there is to be peace in our industrial life let the employer recognize his obligation to his employees - at least to the degree set forth in existing statutes.

Workers have kept faith in American institutions. Most of the conflicts, which have occurred have been when labor's right to live has been challenged and denied.

The balancing of the budget will not in itself place a teaspoonful of milk in a hungry baby's stomach, or remove the rags from its mother's back.

Courage is not how a man stands or falls, but how he gets back up again

Out of the agony and travail of economic America the Committee for Industrial Organization was born.

Who gets the bird, the hunter or the dog?

In the steel industry the corporations generally have accepted collective bargaining and negotiated wage agreements with the Committee for Industrial Organization.

The organization and constant onward sweep of this movement exemplifies the resentment of the many toward the selfishness, greed and the neglect of the few.

The real breeders of discontent and alien doctrines of government and philosophies subversive of good citizenship are such as these who take the law into their own hands.

The men in the steel industry who sacrificed their all were nor merely aiding their fellows at home but were adding strength to the cause of their comrades in all industry.

The way to understand any enemy is to realize that, from his perspective, he is not a villain but a hero.

Living will always be a struggle looking for someone to love you.

Dying in a a war never stopped wars from happening.

My ideas are not developed before I actually do the pieces.

The Chicago Cubs are like Rush Street-a lot of singles, but no action.

I felt weary of the responsibility of owning houses and was glad enough to pass mine on to others.

No matter what we say, entertainers are usually quite insecure, wobbly characters underneath, and maybe that bit of glory or that bit of expression or whatever it is compensates in some area.

People make interesting assumptions about the profession. The writer is a mysterious figure, wandering lonely as a cloud, fired by inspiration, or perhaps a cocktail or two.

All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.

We spend months inside them, then the rest of our lives getting babied by them.