Ideas, in a free society, are not a crime- and neither can they serve as the justification of a crime.

But what is freedom? Freedom from what? There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else.

When intellectual leaders fail to foster the best in the mixed, unformed, vacillating character of people at large, the thugs are sure to bring out the worst. When the ablest men turn into cowards, the average men turn into brutes.

It is a policeman’s duty to retrieve stolen property and return it to its owners. But when robbery becomes the purpose of the law, and the policeman’s duty becomes, not protection, but the plunder of property - then it is an outlaw who has to become a policeman.

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.

There is no such thing as a lousy job - only lousy men who don't care to do it.