No government can guarantee security. It can only tax production, distribution and service and gradually crush the power to pay taxes. That settles nothing. It only uses up the gains of the past and postpones the developments of the future.

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

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

The fuel of the future is going to come from fruit like that sumach out by the road, or from apples, weeds, sawdust - almost anything.

Thinking is hard work, which is why so few people do it.

People are never so likely to be wrong as when they are organized. And they never have so little freedom. Perhaps that is why the people at large keep their freedom. People can be manipulated only when they are organized.

Merely gathering knowledge may become the most useless work a man can do. What can you do to help and heal the world? That is the educational test.