Samuel Gompers

The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.

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.

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

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.