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 whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

The best way is always the simplest. The attics of the world are cluttered up with complicated failures.

When I see an Alfa Romeo go by, I tip my hat.

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

My opposition to war is not based upon pacifist or non-resistant principles. It may be that the present state of civilization is such that certain international questions cannot be discussed; it may be that they have to be fought out. But the fighting never settles the question. It only gets the participants around to a frame of mind where they will agree to discuss what they were fighting about.