But the mind is an attribute of the individual. There is no such thing as a collective brain. There is no such thing as a collective thought. An agreement reached by a group of men is only a compromise or an average drawn upon many individual thoughts.

If you surrender everything to the government and give it total power to plan the whole economy, this will not guarantee your economic security, but it will guarantee the descent of the entire nation to a level of miserable poverty--as the practical results of every totalitarian economy, communist or fascist, have demonstrated.

One loses everything when one loses one's sense of humor.

We have only two sources of information about the character of the people around us: we judge them by what they do and by what they say (particularly the first).

Non-thinking is an act of annihilation, a wish to negate existence, an attempt to wipe out reality. But existence exists; reality is not to be wiped out, it will merely wipe out the wiper

A 'mixed economy' is a society in the process of committing suicide.

The purpose of the law is not to prevent a future offense, but to punish the one actually committed.