The mark of an honest man... is that he means what he says and knows what he means.

Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death.

I am interested in politics so that one day I will not have to be interested in politics.

What is morality, she asked. Judgement to distinguish right and wrong, vision to see the truth, and courage to act upon it, dedication to that which is good, integrity to stand by the good at any price.

To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else.

The right to life is the source of all rights -- and the right to property is their only implementation. Without property rights, no other rights are possible. Since man has to sustain his life by his own effort, the man who has no right to the product of his effort has no means to sustain his life. The man who produces while others dispose of his product, is a slave.

The Founding Fathers were neither passive, death-worshipin g mystics nor mindless, power-seeking looters; as a political group they were a phenomenon unprecedented in history: they were thinkers who were also men of action.