I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society.

There was much in such a society that was primitive and insecure and it certainly could never measure up to the demands of the present epoch. But in such a society are contained the seeds of revolutionary democracy in which none will be held in slave

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.

I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.

I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.