Alexander L. Belikoff

“This country—the product of reason—could not survive on the morality of sacrifice. It was not built by men who sought self-immolation or by men who sought handouts. It could not stand on the mystic split that divorced man’s soul from his body.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“At the first meeting, Schlabrendorff says, he had an opportunity to examine Hitler’s oversize cap. He was struck by its weight. On examination it proved to be lined with three and a half pounds of steel plating.”
― William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

“as ever, we should view his behaviour in the context of the times.”
― Adrian Goldsworthy, Augustus: First Emperor of Rome

“Indeed, in 1937 there appeared a journal called Deutsche Mathematik, and its first editorial solemnly proclaimed that any idea that mathematics could be judged nonracially carried “within itself the germs of destruction of German science.”
― William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany