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

When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral. Do not expect them to produce, when production is punished and looting rewarded. Do not ask, "Who is destroying the world?" You are.

When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit.

Whoever defends his own rights defends the rights of all.

I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

Capitalism has been called a system of greed—yet it is the system that raised the standard of living of its poorest citizens to heights no collectivist system has ever begun to equal, and no tribal gang can conceive of.

To demand 'sense' is the hallmark of nonsense. Nature does not make sense. Nothing makes sense.