It is the people who constitute the basis of Government credit. Why then cannot the people have benefit of their own gilt-edge credit by receiving non-interest bearing currency-instead of bankers receiving the benefit of the people's credit in interest-bearing bonds. If the United States Government will adopt this policy of increasing its national wealth without contributing to the interest collector-for the whole national debt is made up on interest charges-then you will see an era of progress and prosperity in this country such as could never have come otherwise.

The real measure of success is the number of experiments that can be crowded into 24 hours.

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

What a man's mind can create, man's character can control.

I told [Kruesi] I was going to record talking, and then have the machine talk back. He thought it absurd. However, it was finished, the foil was put on; I then shouted "Mary had a little lamb," etc. I adjusted the reproducer, and the machine reproduced it perfectly. On first words spoken on a phonograph.

The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.