Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality.

While all other sciences have advanced that of government is at a standstill - little better understood little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.

The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign is the jewel of the kingdom.

And when these advances are made hydrogen can fill critical energy needs beyond transportation. Hydrogen can also be used to heat and generate electricity for our homes. The future possibilities of this energy source are enormous.

Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry defense transportation agriculture health care and life sciences is directly related to scientific advancement.

Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak and not always with my advance approval and I expect that to continue in the future.

The three main sources of scepticism are first that not every people desires freedom second that democracy in certain parts of the world would be dangerous and third that there is little the world's democracies can do to advance freedom outside their countries.