The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.

Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.