Eli Whitney famous quotes

I have always believed that I should have had no difficulty in causing my rights to be respected.
-- Eli Whitney

#Respect #Rights #Should

An invention can be so valuable as to be worthless to the inventor,
-- Eli Whitney

#Invention #Inventor #Valuable

One of my primary objects is to form the tools so the tools themselves shall fashion the work and give to every part its just proportion.
-- Eli Whitney

#Fashion #Giving #Tools

I have not only Arms but a large proportion of Armourers to make.
-- Eli Whitney

#Arms #Proportion

You are undoubtedly acquainted with my Reputation, and as for my Penmanship it must speak for itself; this is to desire your Approbation to keep a public school.
-- Eli Whitney

#School #Desire #Reputation

I have now taken a serious task upon myself and I fear a greater one that is in the power of any man to perform in the given time-but it is too late to go back.
-- Eli Whitney

#Taken #Power #Men

I never thought my cotton gin would change history.
-- Eli Whitney

#Cotton #Gin

Actually, we got signed in November of 2000 with Dreamworks which is the most amazing label. We have friends on other labels and though we are not selling millions of records, yet, they treat us with tons of respect and give us some very good guidance.

Only those who respect the personality of others can be of real use to them.

We must surrender ourselves so utterly that we can never own ourselves again. We must hand over self and all its rights in an eternal covenant, and give God the absolute right to own us, control us and possess us forever.

True religion, like our founding principles, requires that the rights of the disbeliever be equally acknowledged with those of the believer.

Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail.

The best way to take control over a people and control them utterly is to take a little of their freedom at a time, to erode rights by a thousand tiny and almost imperceptible reductions. In this way, the people will not see those rights and freedoms being removed until past the point at which these changes cannot be reversed.

Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.

The stage has been reached where our armed forces should withdraw beyond the borders It's not the end. It's the start of a new era.

How should they answer?

Why to mute fish should'st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?