Records can be destroyed if they do not suit the prejudices of ruling cliques, lost if they become incomprehensible, distorted if a copyist wishes to impose a new meaning upon them, misunderstood if we lack the information to interpret them. The past is like a huge library, mostly fiction.

The high wage begins down in the shop. If it is not created there it cannot get into pay envelopes. There will never be a system invented which will do away with the necessity for work.

Come ye thankful people, come, Raise the song of Harvest-home!

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.

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

Mark my word - A combination airplane and motor car is coming.

The human mind is a channel through which things-to-be are coming into the realm of things-that-are .