Massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved.

wild flowers should be enjoyed unplucked where they grow.

You cannot create prosperity by law. Sustained thrift, industry, application, intelligence, are the only things that ever do, or ever will, create prosperity. But you can very easily destroy prosperity by law.

The American people abhor a vacuum.

The good citizen will demand liberty for himself, and as a matter of pride he will see to it that others receive the liberty which he thus claims as his own. Probably the best test of true love of liberty in any country is the way in which minorities are treated in that country. Not only should there be complete liberty in matters of religion and opinion, but complete liberty for each man to lead his life as he desires, provided only that in so doing he does not wrong his neighbor.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.