It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.

Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value.

The men who attempt to survive, not by means of reason, but by means of force, are attempting to survive by the method of animals.

It's not a question of who will allow me to do it, it's a question of who will stop me.

The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

Censorship' is a term pertaining only to governmental action. No private action is censorship. No private individual or agency can silence a man or suppress a publication; only the government can do so. The freedom of speech of private individuals includes the right not to agree, not to listen and not to finance one's own antagonists.

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).