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.

The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism.

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

The men who are not interested in philosophy need it most urgently; they are most helplessly in its power.

Just as there is no such thing as a collective or racial mind, so there is no such thing as a collective or racial achievement. There are only individual minds and individual achievements-an d a culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.

This is the age othe common man, they tell us-a title which any man may claim to the extent osuch distinction as he has managed not to achieve.

The sky is like a black sieve pierced by silver drops that tremble, ready to burst through.