Henry Ford

The basically simple things are best, whether it’s automobiles or diets or philosophy.

There can be no lasting peace where hatred exists. Hatreds will continue to arise as long as the causes of war are not rooted out and exposed.

A peaceful nation is one that has the means to make war and restrains.

When bankers get into business they usually destroy it.

I don’t expect to retire. Every man must work, that’s his natural destiny.

Many people seem to believe that Greenfield Village and the Edison Institute and Museum at Dearborn, with their specimens of earlier type of American life and industry, are just a kind of antiquarian hobby of mine. I do not deny that they have given me a great deal of interest and pleasure. But the project is vastly more than a hobby. It has very definite purposes, and I hope will have results lasting down the years. One purpose is to remind the public who visit it and sometimes there are thousands a day–of how farand how fast we have come in technical progress in the last century or so. If we have come so far and so fast, is it likely that we shall stop now?

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.

Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tide-water dog, strong of muscle and with warm, long hair, from Puget Sound to San Diego.

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

[John McCain is]… not a war hero. He’s a war hero – he’s a war hero ’cause he was captured. I Like people that weren’t captured, OK, I hate to tell you.

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can’t smile, grin. If you can’t grin, keep out of the way till you can.

It’s been a big week for our side. Over on the beaches of Normandy our boys have fired the opening guns of the long awaited drive to liberate the world.

That’s what an army is – a mob; they don’t fight with courage that’s born in them, but with courage that’s borrowed from their mass, and from their officers.

We had 10 years after the Cold War to build a new world order and yet we squandered them. The United States cannot tolerate anyone acting independently. Every US president has to have a war.

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

Among the calamities of war, may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages.

I always wanted to get the Purple Heart. This was much easier.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.

On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days, on other fields will bear the fruits of victory.

People didn’t want war. We were forced in it. How fast we finish it depends on how free a hand our generals and admirals have. The less interference they get from the politicians the quicker they’ll end it.