 Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation. |
| We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have received the results of our labor. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money. |
| There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish. |
| It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests. |
| 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. |
| The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit. |
| Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens. |
| Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty. |
