My dear fellow, who will let you?" "That's not the point. The point is, who will stop me?

I want to be prepared to claim the greatest virtue of all - that I was a man who made money

The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.

The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.

The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.

The Middle Ages were an era of mysticism, ruled by blind faith and blind obedience to the dogma that faith is superior to reason. The Renaissance was specifically the rebirth of reason, the liberation of man's mind, the triumph of rationality over mysticism - a faltering, incomplete, but impassioned triumph that led to the birth of science, of individualism, of freedom.

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