We will never have real safety and security for wage earners unless we provide for safety and security for the wage payers and wage savers.

You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.

Middle-income wage earners have essentially had no pay increases since 2000.

Better to be a strong man with a weak point, than to be a weak man without a strong point. A diamond with a flaw is more valuable that a brick without a flaw.

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.