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.

The world is perishing from an orgy of self-sacrificing.

That which exists possesses identity; he could keep it out of existence by refusing to identify it.

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

America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes. They did not starve the people to pay for America's industrialization. They gave the people better jobs, higher wages, and cheaper goods with every new machine they invented, with every scientific discovery or technological advance- and thus the whole country was moving forward and profiting, not suffering, every step of the way.

He walked, groping for a sentence that hung in his mind as an empty shape. He could neither fill it or dismiss it.

If you want to feel good, be rational.