Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus....

Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.

It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.

Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.

Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.