To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society. - Theodore Roosevelt

Each man should have all he earns, whether by brain or body; and the director, the great industrial leader, is one of the greatest of earners, and should have a proportional reward; but no man should live on the earnings of another, and there should not be too gross inequality between service and reward.

It is a bad thing for a nation to raise and to admire a false standard of success; and there can be no falser standard than that set by the deification of material well-being in and for itself.

Of course, really, those that stayed were entitled to precisely as much honor as those that went.