“I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.”

“I hate paying taxes. But I love the civilization they give me”

“To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.”

“If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favor. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble. That's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say, meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.”

“I believe that there are no innate, intrinsic differences among a human being , a baboon or a grain of sand.”

“I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.”

“I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.”