Burning fossil fuels is like breaking up the furniture to feed the fireplace because it's easier than going out to the woodpile.

Profanity is the parlance of the fool. Why curse when there is such a magnificent language with which to discourse?

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

We want men who will fix their eyes on the stars, but who will not forget that their feet must walk on the ground.

The very reason why we object to state ownership, that it puts a stop to individual initiative and to the healthy development of personal responsibility, is the reason why we object to an unsupervised, unchecked monopolistic control in private hands. We urge control and supervision by the nation as an antidote to the movement for state socialism. Those who advocate total lack of regulation, those who advocate lawlessness in the business world, themselves give the strongest impulse to what I believe would be the deadening movement toward unadulterated state socialism.

Those who advocate total lack of regulation, those who advocate lawlessness in the business world, themselves give the strongest impulse to what I believe would be the deadening movement toward unadulterated state socialism.

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.