The infantile cowardice of our time which demands an external pattern, a nonhuman authority.

How shall freedom be defended? By arms when it is attacked by arms, by truth when it is attacked by lies, by faith when it is attacked by authoritarian dogma. Always, in the final act, by determination and faith.

A self-advertising writer is always a self-extinguished writer.

Races didn't bother the Americans. They were something a lot better than any race. They were a People. They were the first self-constituted, self-declared, self-created People in the history of the world.

Beauty is that Medusa's head which men go armed to seek and sever, and dead will starve and sting forever.

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.

Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man.