Allies never trust each other, but that doesn't spoil their effectiveness.

Do it first and feel about it afterwards.' - Dagny Taggart

You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.

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.

Whatever may be open to disagreement, there is one act of evil that may not, the act that no man may commit against others and no man may sanction or forgive. So long as men desire to live together, no man may initiate—do you hear me? no man may start—the use of physical force against others.

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

... reason accepts no commandments.