That reminds me to remark, in passing, that the very first official thing I did, in my administration-and it was on the first day of it, too-was to start a patent office; for I knew that a country without a patent office and good patent laws was just a crab, and couldn't travel any way but sideways or backways.

The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten

There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe... the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here.

Every inventor is a crackpot until his idea succeeds.

None but the dead are permitted to tell the truth.

Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.

Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or a newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.