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.

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.

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.

Laboring men can perform for themselves the office of becoming their own employers.

The fortunate is he whose earnest purpose never swerves, Whose slightest action or inaction servesThe one great aim.Why, even Death stands still, And waits an hour sometimesFor such a will.

Parents have a child, and in doing so they bring into the world a monster that kills everything it comes in contact with.

Our minds do unusual things sometimes, Tamara. When we’re looking for things it takes it upon itself to go down its own route. All we can do is follow

...how many of us have a moved heart that shies away to a different angle, a millimetre or even less from the place where it first existed, some repositioning unknown to us.

When you play a non-fiction character it is more responsibility than when you are playing a fiction character because that person lived, and you do want to pay respect to that.

I guess I'm just good at playing repressed individuals. I'm lucky because those are often the roles that catch people's eyes.

Which ever one of you will want to become a journalist, let him remember to choose his own master: the reader.

I've always loved the word blunderbuss. I've always thought that it was a beautiful word and that it could mean several different things.

Women, as mothers of the earth, deserve the utmost respect.

The thing which seems so glorious when viewed from the heights of the country's cause looks so muddy when seen from the bottom. One begins by getting angry and then feels disgusted.