"Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results."

"Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it."

"People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do."

"Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats."

"Creativity is seeing what everyone has seen, but thinking what no one else thought. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history."

"In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious."

"A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others."

"A life without philosophical reflection is a vessel adrift on an uncharted sea. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history — an essential principle for the reflective life."