Mr Edison gave America just what was needed at that moment in history. They say that when people think of me, they think of my assembly line. Mr. Edison, you built an assembly line which brought together the genius of invention, science and industry.

Improved productivity means less human sweat, not more.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

As a young man, I was very interested in how people lived in earlier times; how they got from place to place, lighted their homes, cooked their meals and so on. So I went to the history books. Well, I could find out all about kings and presidents; but I could learn nothing of their everyday lives. So I decided that history is bunk.

Thinking first of money instead of work brings fear.

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

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