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

If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.

...only the pleasure which proceeds from a rational value judgement can be regarded as moral, pleasure, as such, is not a guide to action nor a standard of morality.

I am interested in politics only in order to secure and protect freedom.

The three of them set out every morning on adventures of their own kind. Once, an elderly professor of literature, Mrs. Taggart's friend, saw them on top of a pile in a junk yard, dismantling the carcass of an automobile. He stopped, shook his head and said to Francisco, 'A young man of your position ought to spend his time in libraries, absorbing the culture of the world.' 'What do you think I'm doing?' asked Francisco.

Remember that rights are moral principles which define and protect a man's freedom of action, but impose no obligations on other men.