The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.

The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.

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

Independence is the only gauge of human virtue and value. What a man is and makes of himself; not what he has or hasn’t done for others. There is no substitute for personal dignity.

If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.

The meaning ascribed in popular usage to the word 'selfishness' is not merely wrong: it represents a devastating intellectual 'package-deal,' which is responsible, more than any other single factor, for the arrested moral development of mankind.

If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.