“Freedom is the great organizing principle of a life lived in a truly human way.”

“Democracy is always an unfinished experiment, testing the capacity of each generation to live freedom nobly.”

“Ideas are not intellectuals' toys: ideas have consequences, for good and for ill, in what even intellectuals sometimes call "the real world".”

“Homo voluntatis cannot explain why some things that can be done should not be done.”

“A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one’s life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.”

“One of the great things about anarchy is that it’s hard to get it organized.”

“The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.”