Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Eli Whitney

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American inventor Eli Whitney.

Last updated on September 17, 2024.

Eli Whitney Jr. was an American inventor, widely known for inventing the cotton gin, one of the key inventions of the Industrial Revolution that shaped the economy of the Antebellum South.

American - Inventor | December 8, 1765 - January 8, 1825

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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

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

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

Eli Whitney

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

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

Eli Whitney

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

Eli Whitney

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

Eli Whitney

I never thought my cotton gin would change history.

Eli Whitney