Every period ruled by mystics was an era of stagnation and want, when most men were on strike against existence.

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.

She had won the battle against her memories. But one form of torture remained, untouched by the years, the torture of the word "why?

I am speaking to those among you who have retained some sovereign shred of their soul, unsold and unstamped: '- to the order of others'. If, in the chaos of the motives that have made you listen to the radio tonight, there was an honest, rational desire to learn what is wrong with the world, you are the man whom I wished to address. By the rules and terms of my code, one owes a rational statement to those whom it does concern and who are making an effort to know. Those who are making an effort to fail to understand me, are not a concern of mine.

To be the kind of writer you want to be, you must first be the kind of thinker you want to be.

If men want to oppose war, it is statism that they must oppose.

People said it because other people said it. They did not know why it was being said and heard everywhere. they did not give or ask for reasons.