Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

• Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
• I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.
• A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.
• The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
• Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.
• Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
• God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.
• Upper classes are a nation's past the middle class is its future.
• God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.
• Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.