In the works of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is confined, means are limited, scope is restricted, movements are labored, and results are humdrum.

I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep.

Every country has the government it deserves.

To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success.

In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve.

It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.

Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.

What is needed is not a revolution in the opposite direction, but the opposite of a revolution.

It is not the mediocrity of women's education which makes their weakness; it is their weakness which necessarily causes their mediocrity.

We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place.

You have to let people see what you wrote. It will never be perfect, but perfect is overrated.

When the past comes knocking, don't answer. It has nothing new to tell you.

And, after all, you’ve got to live.”“Not that way, ” said Roark.

Everybody's got a different sense of humor. It's just different styles.

Good design is a lot like clear thinking made visual.

Show me an 'easy person,' and I will show you a selfish one. Good-natured he may be; why not? since the disastrous consequences of his 'easiness' are generally shouldered by other people.

I'm afraid because some police are way out of control. My true feeling with police is this: If they do their job, there's no problem.

I was raised to work for my father when I was four.

Of course, there are a lot of things I'm angry about in the world.

Tucker Carlson has the new seven p.m. show on Fox and right now it may be the most interesting and engaging show.