I can say-not as a patriotic bromide, but with full knowledge of the necessary metaphysical, epistemological , ethical, political and esthetic roots-that the United States of America is the greatest, the noblest and, in its original founding principles, the only moral country in the history of the world.

Whenever anyone accuses some person of being 'unfeeling,' he means that that person is just. He means that that person has no causeless emotions and will not grant him a feeling which he does not deserve. He means that 'to feel' is to go against reason, against moral values, against reality.

My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.

A leash is a rope with a noose at both ends.

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

You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.

Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.