Those who have ever valued liberty for its own sake believed that to be free to choose, and not to be chosen for, is an inalienable ingredient in what makes human beings human.

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

The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds.

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

True knowledge is knowledge of why things are as they are, and not merely what they are.

To understand is to perceive patterns.

The trouble with academics and commentators is that they care more about whether ideas are interesting than whether they are true.

Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not.

Out of the crooked timber of humanity, nothing completely straight was ever made

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

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

Reveal to the people and make them experience God first before you make them church members

To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.

I'm not easily inhibited by the fact that I don't know something about a subject. It doesn't stop me from dabbling in it.

There is a difference between being a leader and being a boss. Both are based on authority. A boss demands blind obedience; a leader earns his authority through understanding and trust.

In pre-Trump Washington where the old rules applied, Rudy Giuliani could never survive the Senate confirmation process.

Uncovering your real desires can be terrifying. It can also set you spectacularly free.

gardening is something more than a pastime; it is a religion.

The risk is worth it. Mike would have been the first to say that.

Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you're working on.

History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.