The short successes that can be gained in a brief time and without difficulty, are not worth much.

I don’t know much about history, and I wouldn’t give a nickel for all the history in the world. It means nothing to me. History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today.

There is no failure except failure to serve one's purpose.

No unemployment insurance can be compared to an alliance between a man and a plot of land.

The one aim of these financiers is world control by the creation of inextinguishable debts.

If the people really set their minds on anything it is impossible to prevent their getting what they want.

To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.