When a man attempts to deal with me by force, I answer him, by force.

Whether you know the shape of a pebble or the structure of a solar system, the anxioms remain the same: that it exists and that you know it.

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

A reader has to be concerned only with the end result; unless he chooses to analyze it, he does not have to know by what means that result was achieved-but it is my job to know.

To fear to face an issue is to believe that the worst is true.

Aquinas brought an Aristotelian view of reason back into European culture, and lighted the way toward the Renaissance.

Creation comes before distribution - or there will be nothing to distribute. The need of the creator comes before the need of any possible beneficiary. Yet we are taught to admire the second-hander who dispenses gifts he has not produced above the man who made the gifts possible. We praise an act of charity. We shrug at an act of achievement.