As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world - most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world's poor.

After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.

All of the clean technologies are known, it's a question of simply applying them.

In certain ways, I'm not very different than I was when I was a teenager.

Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.

Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.

In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers.

Long periods of recession, which tend to be self-perpetuating, are usually ended by war, or by preparations for it.