“The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.”

People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don’t sit looking at it – walk.

Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.

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

Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment’s torture.

Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.

As we gain knowledge, we do not become more certain, we become certain of more.

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

Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.

Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government

The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth.

Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.

It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

A man’s sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.

Compromise does not satisfy, but dissatisfies everybody; it does not lead to any general fulfillment, but to general frustration; those who try to become everything to all people end up by not being anything to anyone.

I cannot understand the logic of those who have been deliberately and mischievously propagating that the Constitution of Pakistan will not be based on Islamic Sharia. Islamic principles today are as much applicable to life as they were 1300 years ago.

If sexual relations between consenting adults are not part of the right to privacy guaranteed by the Constitution, then American democracy is in trouble.

A constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages is a form of gay bashing and it would do nothing at all to protect traditional marriages.

Either it is the fold of the infinite, or the constant folds [replis] of finitude which curve the outside and constitute the inside.

My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.

Constitutions are checks upon the hasty action of the majority. They are the self-imposed restraints of a whole people upon a majority of them to secure sober action and a respect for the rights of the minority.

We have a government of limited power under the Constitution, and we have got to work out our problems on the basis of law.

Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution . .