Eli Whitney Quotes

#1. 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.

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#2. An invention can be so valuable as to be worthless to the inventor,

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#3. I have not only Arms but a large proportion of Armourers to make.

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#4. 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.

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#5. 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.

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#6. I have always believed that I should have had no difficulty in causing my rights to be respected.

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#7. I can make just such ones if I had tools, and I could make tools if I had tools to make them with.

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#8. I never thought my cotton gin would change history.

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