There is fuel in every bit of vegetable matter that can be fermented. There's enough alcohol in one year's yield of an acre of potatoes to drive the machinery necessary to cultivate the fields for a hundred years.

Failure is the chance to do it better next time.

Wars do not end wars any more than an extraordinarily large conflagration does away with the fire hazard.

People can have the Model T in any color – so long as it’s black.

Under pressure, the mouth speaks when the brain is disengaged, and, sometimes unwittingly, the gearshift is in reverse when it should be in neutral.

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.