For the coming of that day shall I fight, I and my sons and my chosen friends. For the freedom of Man. For his rights. For his life. For his honor.

It is not as late as you think. It is merely early - in the age of the rebirth of individualism.

Action without thought is mindlessness, and thought without action is hypocritical.

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

There are no contradictions. If you find one, check your premises.

We the Living is not a novel 'about Soviet Russia.' It is a novel about Man against the State. Its basic theme is the sanctity of human life - using the word 'sanctity' not in a mystical sense, but in the sense of 'supreme value.'

The Founding Fathers were neither passive, death-worshipin g mystics nor mindless, power-seeking looters; as a political group they were a phenomenon unprecedented in history: they were thinkers who were also men of action.