I want to be prepared to claim the greatest virtue of all - that I was a man who made money

There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism - by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.

No happy person can be quite so impervious to pain (Gail Wynand to Dominique Francon)

Allies never trust each other, but that doesn't spoil their effectiveness.

It is the basic, metaphysical fact of man's nature -- the connection between his survival and his use of reason -- that capitalism recognizes and protects.

In order to be in control of your life, you have to have a purpose-a productive purpose.

The source of the government's authority is “the consent of the governed.” This means that the government is not the ruler, but the servant or agent of the citizens; it means that the government as such has no rights except the rights delegated to it by the citizens for a specific purpose.