There is a subtle danger in a man thinking that he is "fixed" for life. It indicates that the next jolt of the wheel of progress is going to fling him off.

The only prosperity the people can afford to be satisfied with is the kind that lasts

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

Gold is the most useless thing in the world. I am not interested in money but in the things of which money is merely a symbol.

The more detailed the plan, the easier the trip.

Where people work longest and with least leisure, they buy the fewest goods. No towns were so poor as those of England where the people, from children up, worked fifteen and sixteen hours a day. They were poor because these overworked people soon wore out -- they became less and less valuable as workers. Therefore, they earned less and less and could buy less and less.

History doesn't mean dates and wars and textbooks to me; it means the unconquerable pioneer spirit of man.