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.
Henry FordThe longer an article is in the process of manufacture and the more it is moved about, the greater its ultimate cost.
Henry FordThe workingmen have been exploited all the way up and down the line by employers, landlords, everybody.
Henry FordThat the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and idleness.
Henry Ford