You still love me - even if there's one expression of it that you will always feel and want, but will not give me no longer. I'm still what I was, and you'll always see it, and you'll always grant me the same response, even if there's a greater one that you grant another man. No matter what you feel for him, it will not change what you feel for me, and it won't treason to either, because it comes from the same root, it's the same payment in answer to the same values.

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

If you tell an ugly woman that she is beautiful, you offer her the great homage of corrupting the concept of beauty.

Remember that rights are moral principles which define and protect a man's freedom of action, but impose no obligations on other men.

Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon. Animals obtain food by force. man had no claws, no fangs, no horns, no great strength of muscle. He must plant his food or hunt it. To plant, he needs a process of thought. To hunt, he needs weapons,and to make weapons - a process of thought. From this simplest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and we have comes from a single attribute of man -the function of his reasoning mind.

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

When personal judgment is inoperative (or forbidden), men's first concern is not how to choose, but how to justify their choice