The old condition is passing away. The new dawn of another civilized nation is breaking into the lives of the human race. - Mary Harris Jones

The miners lost because they had only the constitution. The other side had bayonets. In the end, bayonets always win.

If you ever saw a policeman with a club in his hand, I want to ask you, did you ever see that policeman club a millionaire? But it is "Get out of here, damn you, go on to jail, damn you," if it is a working man.

I do not believe that iron bars and brutal treatment have ever been cures for crime. And certainly I feel that in our great enlightened country, there is no reason for going back to middle ages and their form of torture for the criminal.