In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.

The only man never to be redeemed is the man without passion.

Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today.

America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes. They did not starve the people to pay for America's industrialization. They gave the people better jobs, higher wages, and cheaper goods with every new machine they invented, with every scientific discovery or technological advance- and thus the whole country was moving forward and profiting, not suffering, every step of the way.

He walked, groping for a sentence that hung in his mind as an empty shape. He could neither fill it or dismiss it.

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.

When you have civilized men fighting savages, you support the civilized men, no matter who they are.