It is often said that the earth belongs to the race, as if raw land was a boon, or gift.

Great captains of industry are as rare as great generals

If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control.

The type and formula of most schemes of philanthropy or humanitarianism is this: A and B put their heads together to decide what C shall be made to do for D. . . . I call C the Forgotten Man.

Undoubtedly there are, in connection with each of these things, cases of fraud, swindling, and other financial crimes; that is to say, the greed and selfishness of men are perpetual.

He who would be well taken care of must take care of himself.

If you live in a country run by committee, be on the committee.

We shall find that every effort to realize equality necessitates a sacrifice of liberty.

The State cannot get a cent for any man without taking it from some other man, and this latter must be a man who has produced and saved it. This latter is the Forgotten Man

There is no boon in nature. All the blessings we enjoy are the fruits of labor, toil, self-denial, and study.

It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme.

Planting your own garden is better than waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

Rock music should be gross: that's the fun of it. It gets up and drops its trousers.

The more you openly name your struggles, the less people can use your silence as a back door to blackmail you, to sabotage your leadership, or to subvert relationships within the organization.

We each need to become our own hero.

I wish it had never happened because then I wouldn't think about it as I'm falling asleep.

It's rare that I read more than two or three books by any one author, usually only one.

There is a manner of forgiveness so divine that you are ready to embrace the offender for having called it forth.

In placing civil disobedience before constructive work I was wrong and I did not profit by the Himalayan blunder that I had committed.

Being truly aimless is like being dead. It may even be the same thing, or worse. It is the aimless who find the wrong roads, and drive down them, simply because they have nowhere else to go.

We have to take the biblical truth and start applying it in the statehouse, the schoolhouse, and the marketplace.