I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. The will to a system is a lack of integrity.

The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.

We have created a society where individual rights and freedoms, compassion and diversity are core to our citizenship. But underlying that idea of Canada is the promise that we all have a chance to build a better life for ourselves and our children.

To find yourself, think for yourself.

Socialism is the visionary younger brother of despotism, which it wants to inherit. Socialism wants to have the fullness of state force which before only existed in despotism. ... However, it goes further than anything in the past because it aims at the formal destruction of the individual ... who ... can be used to improve communities by an expedient organ of government.

The individual has always to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.