justice Quotes

I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.

Immigrants aren't the reason wages haven't gone up enough; those decisions are made in the boardrooms that too often put quarterly earnings over long-term returns.

No one is pro-abortion.

Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.

Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.