Wars do not end wars any more than an extraordinarily large conflagration does away with the fire hazard.

HENRY FORD, My Life and Work

My opposition to war is not based upon pacifist or non-resistant principles. It may be that the present state of civilization is such that certain international questions cannot be discussed; it may be that they have to be fought out. But the fighting never settles the question. It only gets the participants around to a frame of mind where they will agree to discuss what they were fighting about.

HENRY FORD, My Life and Work

Political parties are like poets, born, not made.

HENRY FORD, "Parties Are Born, Not Made," Ford Ideals

Unless you have courage, a courage that keeps you going, always going, no matter what happens, there is no certainty of success. It is really an endurance race.

HENRY FORD, Theosophist Magazine, Feb. 1930

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

HENRY FORD, remarks in court, July 1919

You must know all there is to know in your particular field and keep on the alert for new knowledge. The least difference in knowledge between you and another man may spell his success and your failure.

HENRY FORD, Theosophist Magazine, Feb. 1930

What we call evil, it seems to me, is simply ignorance bumping its head in the dark.

HENRY FORD, Theosophist Magazine, Feb. 1930

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

HENRY FORD, The Theosophical Path magazine, Nov. 1927

The only motive that can keep politics pure is the motive of doing good for one's country and its people.

HENRY FORD, "Party Politics," Ford Ideals

The time will come when man will know even what is going on in the other planets and perhaps be able to visit them.

HENRY FORD, Theosophist Magazine, Feb. 1930

If there is one thing which I would banish from the earth it is fear.

HENRY FORD, Theosophist Magazine, Feb. 1930

It is always possible to do a thing better the second time.

HENRY FORD, My Life and Work

To see a thing clearly in the mind makes it begin to take form.

HENRY FORD, Theosophist Magazine, Feb. 1930

We teach children to save their money. As an attempt to counteract thoughtless and selfish expenditure, that has value. But it is not positive; it does not lead the child into the safe and useful avenues of self-expression or self-expenditure. To teach a child to invest and use is better than to teach him to save.

HENRY FORD, My Life and Work

Money is worth what it will help you to produce or buy and no more.

HENRY FORD, My Life and Work

I believe we are reincarnated. You, I, we reincarnate over and over. We live many lives, and store up much experience. Some are older souls than others and so they know more. It seems to be an intuitive "gift." It is really hard-won experience.

HENRY FORD, Theosophist Magazine, Feb. 1930

There is a subtle danger in a man thinking that he is "fixed" for life. It indicates that the next jolt of the wheel of progress is going to fling him off.

HENRY FORD, My Life and Work

Every man is better for a period of work under the open sky.

HENRY FORD, My Life and Work