An inventor is a man who asks 'Why?' of the universe and lets nothing stand between the answer and his mind.

Observe, in politics, that the term extremism has become a synonym of "evil," regardless of the content of the issue (the evil is not what you are extreme about, but that you are "extreme" - i.e., consistent).

The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.

Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.

An attempt to achieve the good by force is like an attempt to provide a man with a picture gallery at the price of cutting out his eyes.

I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.

The attack on "selfishness" is an attack on man's self-esteem; to surrender one, is to surrender the other.