I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there with no help except curiosity and the will to learn that my taste for reading developed and was refined.

I come from pioneer stock developers of the West people who went out into the wilderness and set up home with nothing but a pair of oxen.

When it comes to developing character strength inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child no institution can or ever will compare with or effectively substitute for the home's potential for positive influence.

Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history.

All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.

Governments that use violence to stop democratic development will not earn themselves respite forever. They will pay an increasingly high price for actions which they can no longer hide from the world with ease and will find themselves on the wrong side of history.

The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development.

And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.