Defiance, not obedience, is the American's answer to overbearing authority.

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.

Live a life as a monument to your soul.

Don't ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.

If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.

The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.

If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.

The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away from the rights of a minority.

The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.

You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

If the truth shall kill them, let them die.

The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.