Civilization does not have to perish. The brutes are winning only by default.

Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.

To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.

Litigants obey the verdict of a tribunal solely on the premise that there is an objective rule of conduct, which they both accept.

Morality pertains only to the sphere of man's free will - only to those actions which are open to his choice.

The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.

If you tell an amateur that his story is not good, he always declares indignantly: 'Oh, but it really happened just like this!' The writer who doesn't understand that this is beside the point is not a writer at all.