The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor.

There is no a prior reason for supposing that the truth, when it is discovered, will necessarily prove interesting.

Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep.

Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience.

The desire not to be impinged upon, to be left to oneself, has been the markof high civilisation both on the part of individuals and communities.

Both liberty and equality are among the primary goals pursued by human beings throughout many centuries; but total liberty for wolves is death to the lambs, total liberty of the powerful, the gifted, is not compatible with the rights to a decent existence of the weak and the less gifted.

Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.