The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

The best of wages will not compensate for excessively long working hours which undermine heath.

I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an average of three meals per day, but that is not a good way to live.

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.

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.

The goose that lays golden eggs has been considered a most valuable possession. But even more profitable is the privilege of taking the golden eggs laid by somebody else's goose. The investment bankers and their associates now enjoy that privilege.

Repression breeds hate; hate menaces stable government.