The [U.S.] Constitution is a limitation on the government, not on private individuals ... it does not prescribe the conduct of private individuals, only the conduct of the government ... it is not a charter for government power, but a charter of the citizen's protection against the government.

I think. I am. I will.

You must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary consequences.

A society without intellectuals is like a body without a head

Any group or "collective", large or small, is only a number of individuals. A group can have no rights other than the rights of its individual members.

That which is not worth contemplating in life, is not worth recreating in art.

Without property rights, no other rights are possible.