"No individual gets up and says, I'm going to take this because I want it. He'd say, I'm going to take it because it really belongs to me and it would be better for everyone if I had it. It's true of children fighting over toys. And it's true of governments going to war. Nobody is ever involved in an aggressive war; it's always a defensive war -- on both sides."

"Individualities may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation."

"That all men are equal is a proposition which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given his assent."

"The man fitted for affairs and authority never considers individuals, but things and their consequences."

"In order to be irreplaceable - one must always be different."

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

"You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do."

"Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private self-defense."

"Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals."

"Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known."

"Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals."

"A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable."

"Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance."

"I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps."

"What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope."