Defiance is beautiful. The defiance of power, especially great or overwhelming power, exalts and glorifies the rebel.

The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.

Of all the featherless beasts, only man, chained by his self-imposed slavery to the clock, denies the elemental fire and proceeds as best he can about his business, suffering quietly, martyr to his madness. Much to learn.

How could anything non-controversial be of intellectual interest to grown-ups?

The best American writers have come from the hinterlands -- Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wolfe, Steinbeck. Most of them never even went to college.

Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

America My Country: last nation on earth to abolish human slavery; first of all nations to drop the nuclear bomb on our fellow human beings.