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.

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

Leadership is obliged to justify itself daily.

The humanitarian wishes to be a prime mover in the lives of others. He cannot admit either the divine or the natural order, by which men have the power to help themselves. The humanitarian puts himself in the place of God.

A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.

People mostly do as they like, and that would be fine if they'd let other people do the same.

Trade and money, which go together in a stream of energy, inevitably wash away the enclosing walls of a society of status.