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Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.

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Whenever I hear people talking about "liberal ideas," I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.

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A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.

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An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

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The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

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It is useless to close the gates against ideas; they overlap them.

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A cold in the head cause less suffering than an idea.

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There is nothing in the world more powerful than an idea. No weapon can destroy it; no power can conquer it except the power of another idea.

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Ideas are the factors that lift civilization. They create revolutions. There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs.

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"What made the deepest impression upon you?" inquired a friend one day of Lincoln, "when you stood in the presence of the Falls of Niagara, the greatest of natural wonders?" ---- "The thing that stuck me most forcibly when I saw the Falls," Lincoln responded with the characteristic deliberation, "was where in the world did all that water come from?"

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