Let me be the child in the story and declare that the Emperor is naked — or that America is culturally bankrupt.

A man of independent judgment is a man of profound self-esteem.

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

The fortune my spirit is not to be blown into coins of brass and flung to the winds as alms for the poor of the spirit. I guard my treasures: my thought, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom.

Do you mean to tell me that you're thinking seriously of building that way, when and if you are an architect?" Yes." My dear fellow, who will let you?" That's not the point. The point is, who will stop me?

In a capitalist society, all human relationships are voluntary.

Whether you know the shape of a pebble or the structure of a solar system, the anxioms remain the same: that it exists and that you know it.