You are damned, and we wish to share your damnation.

Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.

but their eyes were as cold blue glass buttons.

If you surrender everything to the government and give it total power to plan the whole economy, this will not guarantee your economic security, but it will guarantee the descent of the entire nation to a level of miserable poverty--as the practical results of every totalitarian economy, communist or fascist, have demonstrated.

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

Those who tell you that man is unable to perceive a reality undistorted by his senses, mean that they are unwilling to perceive a reality undistorted by their feelings. "Things as they are" are things as perceived by your mind; divorce them from reason and they become "things as perceived by your wishes.

I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.