"Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth, the tyranny of plutocracy."

"If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name."

"The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything."

"The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it."

"A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education."

"Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it."

"Pain is a very precious gift. Do not waste it."

"Everybody's a self-made man; but only the successful ones are ever willing to admit it."

"Pleasure is an important component of the quality of life, but by itself it does not bring happiness. Pleasure helps to maintain order, but by itself cannot create a new order in consciousness."

"And when he is out of sight, quickly also is he out of mind."

"In soft regions are born soft men."

"The individual choice of garnishment of a burger can be an important point to the consumer in this day when individualism is an increasingly important thing to people."