Who said “People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the…”?

“The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical.”

“With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in man, than any other association of men.”

“The most conservative man in the world is the British Trade Unionist when you want to change him.”

“Without the power of the Industrial Union behind it, Democracy can only enter the State as the victim enters the gullet of the Serpent.”

“It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.”

“To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers; but extremely fit for a nation whose government is influenced by shopkeepers.”

“Man, an animal that makes bargains.”

“Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.”

“Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.”

“Mankind are animals that makes bargains, no other animal does this.”

“Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.”