Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.

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.

Labor Day...is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race, or nation.

You can't do it unless you organize.

When a man puts a pistol to my head and tells me to deliver, there is no arbitration.

What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures,