Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

There are many things that go to make up an education, but there are just two things without which no man can ever hope to have an education and these two things are character and good manners.

The limited liability corporation is the greatest single invention of modern times.

Businesses planned for service are apt to succeed businesses planned for profit are apt to fail.

The more that one studies the history of the building of the American nation, the clearer it becomes that it may be justly described as a laboratory experiment in understanding and in solving the world problems of tomorrow.

Fundamentally, the force that rules the world is conduct, whether it be moral or immoral. If it is moral, at least there may be hope for the world. If immoral, there is not only no hope, but no prospect of anything but destruction of all that has been accomplished during the last 5,000 years.

Persecution on racial and religious grounds has absolutely no place in a nation given over to liberty.