There are no little people in America. There are only people, equal before the law, yearning to breathe free and wanting to achieve the best within them.

Man cannot demand that others give up their lives to make him happy.

America's founding Ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more - and nothing less.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.

People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked…The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.

There are no evil thoughts except one; the refusal to think.

For centuries, the mystics of spirit had existed by running a protection racket - by making life on earth unbearable, then charging you for consolation and relief, by forbidding all the virtues that make existence possible, then riding on the shoulders of your guilt, by declaring production and joy to be sins, then collecting blackmail from the sinners.