1. “It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.”
2. “Freedom must be distinguished from democracy, with which it is often confused.”
3. “No-one is equal to anything. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.”
4. “No one chooses which culture to be born into or can be blamed for how that culture evolved in past centuries.”
5. “There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.”
6. “Intellect is not wisdom.”
7. “Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.”
8. “It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.”
9. “The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.”
10. “When people are used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.”
11. “Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.”
12. “It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.”
13. “If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.”
14. “Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.”
15. “Age gives you an excuse for not being very good at things that you were not good at when you were young.”
