The craving for power is in itself a sign of inferior abilities and unfitness for responsibility.

The humanitarian in theory is the terrorist in action.

Whoever is fortunate enough to be an American citizen came into the greatest inheritance man has ever enjoyed. He has had the benefit of every heroic and intellectual effort men have made for many thousands of years, realized at last. If Americans should now turn back, submit again to slavery, it would be a betrayal so base the human race might better perish.

It takes the best part of a lifetime to find out what you don't want.

An abstraction will move a mountain: Nothing can withstand an idea.

If there were just one gift you could choose, but nothing barred, what would it be? We wish you then your own wish; you name it. Ours is liberty, now and forever.

The biggest pests are the people who use altruism as an alibi. What they passionately wish is to make themselves important.