No Lasting Gain Has Ever Come From

Why Should The Wealth Of The Country Be Stored In Banks And Elevators While The Idle Workman Wanders Homeless About The Streets And The Idle Loafers Who Hoard The Gold Only To Spend It On Riotous Living Are Rolling About In Fine Carriages From Which They Look Out On Peaceful Meetings And Call Them Riots?

So Long As There Is One [person] Who Seeks Employment And Cannot Find It, The Hours Of Work Are Too Long.

So Long As We Have Held Fast To Voluntary Principles And Have Been Actuated And Inspired By The Spirit Of Service, We Have Sustained Our Forward Progress, And We Have Made Our Labor Movement Something To Be Respected And Accorded A Place In The Councils Of The Republic. Where We Have Blundered Into Trying To Force A Policy Or Decision, Even Though Wise And Right, We Have Impeded If Not Interrupted The Realization Of Our Own Aims.

To Be Free, The Workers Must Have Choice. To Have Choice They Must Retain In Their Own Hands The Right To Determine Under What Conditions They Will Work.

The Freedom Of Speech And The Freedom Of The Press Have Not Been Granted To The People In Order That They May Say Things Which Please, And Which Are Based Upon Accepted Thought, But The Right To Say The Things Which Displease, The Right To Say The Things Which Convey The New And Yet Unexpected Thoughts, The Right To Say Things, Even Though They Do A Wrong.