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"If you will study the history of almost any criminal, you will find he is an inveterate cigaret smoker. ... I do nothing because it gives me pleasure. . . . Most of the ailments of people come from eating too much. . . . Salt is one of the best things for the teeth. And also for the hair.
. . . An army or navy is a tool for the protection of misguided, inefficient, destructive Wall Street. . . . My mother is in my workshops. She is in my workshops to this extent—it is impossible for me to tolerate disorder or uncleanliness. ... I do not believe in charity. . . . There is something sacred about wages. . . . Reading can become a dope habit. ... To say it plainly, the great majority of women who work do so in order to buy fancy clothes. . . . The number of needless tasks that are performed daily by thousands of people is amazing. ... A man learns something even by being hanged."
Frail-looking, but sturdy as one of his own Model Ts, Henry Ford at 77 is still absorbed in mechanics. With warring, untidy, pleasure-liking, improvident humanity he would prefer to have only a nodding acquaintance. And his feeling about labor unions is simple and characteristic: he wishes they would stop annoying him.