Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man's values, it has to be earned.

Political freedom cannot exist without economic freedom; a free mind and a free market are corollaries.

If men want to oppose war, it is statism that they must oppose.

There are only two means by which men can deal with one another: guns or logic. Force or persuasion. Those who know that they cannot win by means of logic, have always resorted to guns.

The virtue involved in helping those one loves is not 'selflessness' or 'sacrifice,' but integrity.

I sat there beside him till morning - and as I watched his face in the starlight, then the first ray of the sun on his untroubled forehead and closed eyelids, what I experienced was not a prayer, I do not pray, but that state of spirit at which a prayer is a misguided attempt: a full, confident, affirming self-dedication to my love of the right, to the certainty that the right would win and that this boy would have the kind of future he deserved... I did not expect it to be as great as this - or as hard.

The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.