A 'mixed economy' is a society in the process of committing suicide.

Believing in fate produces fate. Believing in freedom will create infinite possibilities.

What I am fighting is the idea that charity is a moral duty and a primary virtue.

There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for me to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What’s there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed or enforced nor objectively interpreted - and you create a nation of law-breakers - and then you cash in on guilt.

The action required to sustain human life is primarily intellectual; everything man needs has to be discovered by his mind and produced by his effort.

[What for] was the first question he asked about any activity proposed to him - and nothing would make him act, if he found no valid answer. He flew through the days of his summer month like a rocket, but if one stopped him in mid-flight, he could always name the purpose of his every random moment. Two things were impossible to him: to stand still or to move aimlessly.

Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.