A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.

Architectural features of true democratic ground-freedom would rise naturally from topography, which means that buildings would all take on the nature and character of the ground on which in endless variety they would stand and be component part.

I'm against war. Always have been, always will be. And everything connected with it, is anathema to me. I have never considered it necessary.

Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.

The two most important tools an architect has are the eraser in the drawing room and the sledge hammer on the construction site.

To know what to leave out and what to put in; just where and just how, ah, that is to have been educated in knowledge of simplicity.

I never design a building before I've seen the site and met the people who will be using it.