Organisation can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgement.

No one can really pull you up very high - you lose your grip on the rope. But on your own two feet you can climb mountains.

Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards.

Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties... They valued liberty both as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty... that public discussion is a political duty; and that this should be a fundamental principle of the American government.

Anyone who critically analyzes a business learns this: that the success or failure of an enterprise depends usually upon one man.

The most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen.

Men feared witches and burned women.