Romanticism was more than merely an alternative to a sterile classicism; romanticism made possible, especially in art, a great expansion of the human consciousness.

God is love? Not bloody likely.

The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power of means to coerce others.

Those art lovers who pride themselves mostly on *taste* usually possess no other talent.

If, as some say, evil lies in the hearts and not the institutions of men, then there's hardly a distinction worth making between, say, Hitler's Germany and Rebecca's Sunnybrook Farm.

A man's duty? To be ready -- with rifle or rood -- to defend his home when the showdown comes.

For this world that men have made, none of us is bad enough. For the world that made us, none is good enough.