If the Nation can issue a dollar bond it can issue a dollar bill. The element that makes the bond good makes the bill good also. The difference between the bond and the bill is that the bond lets the money broker collect twice the amount of the bond and an additional 20%. Whereas the currency, the honest sort provided by the Constitution pays nobody but those who contribute in some useful way. It is absurd to say our Country can issue bonds and cannot issue currency. Both are promises to pay, but one fattens the usurer and the other helps the People.

Large portions of life's disappointments are individuals who did not understand that they were so near achievement when they surrendered.

We are striking it big in the electric light, better than my vivid imagination first conceived. Where this thing is going to stop Lord only knows.

When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.

I have had a lot of success with failure

Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.