Action without thought is mindlessness, and thought without action is hypocritical.

The concept of individual rights is so prodigious a feat of political thinking that few men grasp it fully - and two hundred years have not been enough for other countries to understand it. But this is the concept to which we owe our lives - the concept which made it possible for us to bring into reality everything of value that any of us did or will achieve or experience.

The conservatives want to rule man's consciousness; the liberals, his body.

Compromise does not satisfy, but dissatisfies everybody; it does not lead to any general fulfillment, but to general frustration; those who try to become everything to all people end up by not being anything to anyone.

Style is not an end in itself, it is only a means to an end - the means of telling a story.

The doctrine that 'human rights' are superior to 'property rights' simply means that some human beings have the right to make property out of others.

I think that when in doubt about the truth of an issue, it's safer and in better taste to select the least numerous of the adversaries.