People are not embracing collectivism because they have accepted bad economics. They are accepting bad economics because they have embraced collectivism.

That an error made on your own is safer than ten truths accepted on faith, because the first leaves you the means to correct it but the second destroys your capacity to distinguish truth from error.

I sat there beside him till morning - and as I watched his face in the starlight, then the first ray of the sun on his untroubled forehead and closed eyelids, what I experienced was not a prayer, I do not pray, but that state of spirit at which a prayer is a misguided attempt: a full, confident, affirming self-dedication to my love of the right, to the certainty that the right would win and that this boy would have the kind of future he deserved... I did not expect it to be as great as this - or as hard.

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority.

He, too, stood looking at her for a moment - and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but the look of someone who had thought of her every day of that year. She could not be certain, it was only an instant, so brief that just as she caught it, he was turning.

In all proper relationships there is no sacrifice of anyone to anyone.

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