“Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and economical must be rejected or revised if it is untrue; likewise laws and institu...”

“Thus I assume that to each according to his threat advantage is not a conception of justice.”

“The refusal to take part in all war under any conditions is an unworldly view bound to remain a sectarian doctrine. It no more challenges the state's authority than the celibacy of priests challeng...”

“... unfools of unbeing ... means quite clearly people who are too stereotyped to be eccentric people who are too dead spiritually to exist at all and who call alive individual fools”

“We live individual lives with the consciousness of death and awareness of the past. But the most important part of that sentence is the individual part. Let yourself be humbled by the experiences p...”

“Differentiation is a universal struggle that all human beings face if they wish to fully develop themselves as individuals.”

“Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.”

“Poor people have been voting for big government liberalism for 50 years... and they are still poor.”

“We want to believe something very similar about racism and accusations of racism. If we can prove that a particular allegation of racism is unfounded or untrue, we can all breathe a collective sigh...”

“Make a liberty without the instinctive duress.”

“If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would...”

“The will of the people, moreover, practically means the will of the most numerous or the most active part of the people; the majority, or those who succeed in making themselves accepted as the majo...”