Henry Ford

The union organizers are asking us to sit still while it sells our men the jobs that have always been free.

Money will ruin the life of any man who treats it like anything but a tool with which to work.

I haven’t put a pencil to a piece of paper, working out a problem, in years; I do it in my head.

Competition is the lifeblood of industry.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

Idleness is the reason for many of our troubles.

War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull.

The enemy is anybody who’s going to get you killed, no matter which side he’s on.

You don’t win wars by dying for your country you win wars by making the other son of a b*tch die for his.

Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

After all the field of battle possesses many advantages over the drawing-room. There at least is no room for pretension or excessive ceremony, no shaking of hands or rubbing of noses, which make one doubt your sincerity, but hearty as well as hard hand-play. It at least exhibits one of the faces of humanity, the former only a mask.

Thus, then, on the night of the tenth of May, at the outset of this mighty battle, I acquired the chief power in the State, which henceforth I wielded in ever-growing measure for five years and three months of world war, at the end of which time, all our enemies having surrendered unconditionally or being about to do so, I was immediately dismissed by the British electorate from all further conduct of their affairs.

Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a maneuver, a blow with an agreement.

Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.

I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they’d never expect it.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.

Twice in my lifetime the long arm of destiny has reached across the oceans and involved the entire life and manhood of the United States in a deadly struggle.There was no use in saying We don’t want it; we won

A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.