There were things in my past which I have not liked. But all the things of which I was proud will remain.

The only proper functions of a government are: the police, to protect you from criminals; the army, to protect you from foreign invaders; and the courts, to protect your property and contracts from breach or fraud by others, and to settle disputes by rational rules, according to objective law.

That's a cute sentence: the years to come. Why are you so sure they're coming?

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

There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.

But this was that view of human destiny which she had most passionately hated and rejected: the view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but not to achieve. Her life and her values could not bring her to that, she thought; she had never found beauty in longing for the impossible and had never found the possible to be beyond her reach.

To abstain from condemning a torturer, is to become an accessory to the torture and murder of his victims.