All power rests on hierarchy: An army is nothing but a well-organized lynch mob.

I intend to be good for the rest of my natural life -- if I live that long.

If America could be, once again, a nation of self-reliant farmers, craftsmen, hunters, ranchers, and artists, then the rich would have little power to dominate others. Neither to serve nor to rule: That was the American dream.

If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.

A house built on greed cannot long endure.

Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers.

When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense.