Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

We should not forget that it will be just as important to our descendants to be prosperous in their time as it is to us to be prosperous in our time.

From reading of the people I admired - ranging from the soldiers of Valley Forge and Morgan's riflemen to my Southern forefathers and kinfolk - I felt a great admiration for men who were fearless and who could hold their own in the world. And I had a great desire to be like them.

Look Toward the stars but keep your feet firmly on the ground.

It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.

Kings and such are just as funny as politicians.

We [must] hold the just balance and set ourselves as resolutely against improper corporate influence on the one hand as against demagogy and mob rule on the other.