"Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it."

"Marriage is socialism among two people."

"We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather."

"Lenders, including major credit companies as well as payday lenders, have taken over the traditional role of the street-corner loan shark, charging the poor insanely high rates of interest."

"Responsibility is the price of freedom."

"A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free."

"The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom."

"It is a enduring truth that justice is the harmonious balance between individual liberty and collective good — an essential principle for the reflective life."