Hard-core structural poverty has a counterpart at the apex: hard-core structural affluence.

Everyone should own a piece of the wealth-producing capital of this country, but not everyone can be a manager. Or should be.

Labor is the source of subsistence, capital is the source of affluence. My idea is to make everyone a capitalist, and therefore, financially secure.

The uneasy ghost of Marx must suffer the torments of the damned at the truth glaring from the pages of history that one does not abolish property by transferring it to the state.

The point is to make the pie grow faster and distribute the new growth more equitably.

There is no future for those who cannot or will not think.

Most of us owe instead of own. And the less the economy needs our labor, the less able we are to "save" our way to capital ownership.

Technology has no function except to save labor. Yet how often do we hear that the purpose of new capital formation is to create jobs?

We have an economic policy that is just about 10,000 years out of date.

The way the system now works, credit is extended to those who don't need it and denied to those who are in desperate need of it.

The sole missing link is the recognition that the acquisition of capital ownership by the millions is an indispensable goal. That is the turning point - our recognition of the proper goal.

Yes, you are Eskimo, " he had said. "And never forget it. We live as no other people can, for we truly understand the earth.

Sometimes the hardest part of the journey is believing you're worthy of the trip.

If you have to fight old enemies, you should do it with your own old soldiers.

The family is the essential presence, the thing that never leaves you, even if you find you have to leave it.

If you truly believe that what you have is useful and valuable to your clients, then you have a moral obligation to try to serve them in every way possible.

The pious and just honoring of ourselves may be thought the fountainhead from whence every laudable and worthy enterprise issues forth.

I have to thank the people, Congress and Government of the United States, for my liberation from captivity.

There is a probably natural and learned reticence with myself talking about my early life.

Life is short and often stingy; feast the heart with what it craves, short of cruelty, and let the world wonder.

My journey has been a very slow build-up. Each year has been a step upward. I've never actually gone backward.