I am an intransigent atheist, though not a militant one. This means that I am not fighting against religion - I am fighting for reason.

So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?

He wanted nothing, for the time being, except to understand .... Without advice, assistance or plan, he began reading an incongruous assortment of books; he would find some passage which he could not understand in one book, and he would get another on that subject .... There was no order in his reading; but there was order in what remained of it in his mind.

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

America’s founding ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more-and nothing less. The rest-everything that America achieved, everything she became, everything 'noble and just,' and heroic, and great, and unprecedented in human history-was the logical consequence of fidelity to that one principle.

To achieve, you need thought

An irresponsible person is a person who makes vague promises, then breaks his word, blames it on circumstances and expects other people to forgive it.