Joint Endeavors Quotes

[A party is] ... a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavors the national interest, upon some particular principle on which they are all agreed.

The United States has become great because we, as a people, have been able to work together for great objectives even while differing about details.

Most achievements in science are to a certain degree group efforts.

When I set my goals, I set them to where they fit within the team concept.

I want relations which are not purely personal, based on purely personal qualities; but relations based upon some unanimous accord in truth or belief, and a harmony of purpose, rather than of personality. I am weary of personality. Let us be easy and impersonal, not forever fingering over our own souls, and the souls of our acquaintances, but trying to create a new life, a new common life, a new complete tree of life from the roots that are within us.

I have overlived the generation with which mutual labors & perils begat mutual confidence and influence.

In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody else. It's important to combine the two in just the right amount.