Poems are difficult to silence.
Profit sharing in the form of stock distributions to workers would help to democratize the ownership of America's vast corporate wealth which is today appallingly undemocratic and unhealthy.
There is no power in the world that can stop the forward march of free men and women when they are joined in the solidarity of human brotherhood.
There is no greater calling than to serve your fellow men. There is no greater contribution than to help the weak. There is no greater satisfaction than to have done it well.
There's a direct relationship between the ballot box and the bread box, and what the union fights for and wins at the bargaining table can be taken away in the legislative halls.
If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win.
Labor is not fighting for a larger slice of the national pie-labor is fighting for a larger pie.
Material advancement has its share in moral and intellectual progress. Becky Sharp's acute remark that it is not difficult to be virtuous on ten thousand a year has its applications to nations; and it is futile to expect a hungry and squalid population to be anything but violent and gross.
Change your mind and it will change your life. If nothing around you changes, changes the things that are around you.
You Americans have the loveliest wine in the world, you know, but you don't realize it. You call them domestic and that's enough to start trouble anywhere.
On learning to swim: I'm too big to have some woman hold my stomach and say 'Now kick your feet. '