"The world owes nothing to any man,..." - Quote by Thomas Edison

“The trouble with most people is that they quit before they start.”

“IF PARENTS PASS ENTHUSIASM ALONG TO THEIR CHILDREN, THEY WILL LEAVE THEM AN ESTATE OF INCALCULABLE VALUE”

“My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.”

“in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.”

“No generation has a right to contract debts greater than can be paid off during the course of its own existence.”

“America's not just [about] looking out for yourself, it's not just about greed, it's not just about trying to climb to the very top and keep everybody else down. ... Hard work, that's a value. Looking out for one another, that's a value. The idea that we're all in it together and [that] I'm my brother's keeper and [my] sister's keeper, that's a value.”

“Marriage is the beginning and pinnacle of civilization.”

“I see the necessity of sacrificing our opinions sometimes to the opinions of others for the sake of harmony.”

“The extortions and oppressions of government will go on so long as such bare fraudulence deceives and disarms the victims; so long as they are ready to swallow the immemorial official theory that protesting against the stealings of the archbishop's secretary's nephew's mistress' illegitimate son is a sin against the Holy Ghost.”