The most basic principle to being a free American is the notion that we as individuals are responsible for our own lives and decisions
[T]he direction of society has been taken over by a type of man who is not interested in the principles of civilisation. Not of this or that civilisation but from what we can judge to-day of any civilisation. . . . [T]he type of man dominant to-day is a primitive one, a Naturmensch rising up in the midst of a civilised world.