Whenever a people or an institution forget its hard beginnings, it is beginning to decay.

The machine yes the machine never wastes anybody's time never watches the foreman never talks back.

I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.

In the night the cabbages catch at the moon, the leaves drip silver, the rows of cabbages are a series of little silver waterfalls in the moon.

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Freedom is baffling: men having it often know not they have it till it is gone and they no longer have it.

If the facts are against you, argue the law. If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the law and the facts are against you, pound the table and yell like hell