“No principle ever filled anybody's milk bottle”

“There can be no compromise on moral principles.”

“My greatest personal mistake is ever to allow a word or moment that “doesn’t count,” i.e., that I do not refer to my own basic principles. Every word, every action, every moment counts. (This is the pattern on which everybody makes mistakes [or] becomes irrational — not relating their one action or one conviction to another.”

“A man of self respect doesn't turn into a milch cow for anybody.”

“He demanded of all people the one thing he had never granted anybody: obedience.”

“Remember that rights are moral principles which define and protect a man's freedom of action, but impose no obligations on other men.”

“All I know is, unselfishness is the only moral principle," said Jessica Pratt, "the noblest principle and a sacred duty and much more important than freedom. Unselfishness is the only way to happiness. I would have everybody who refused to be unselfish shot. To put them out of their misery. They can't be happy anyway.”