The right to life means that a man has the right to support his life by his own work (on any economic level, as high as his ability will carry him); it does not mean that others must provide him with the necessities of life.

An individualist is a man who says: 'I will not run anyone's life - nor let anyone run mine. I will not rule or be ruled. I will not be a master nor a slave. I will not sacrifice myself to anyone - nor sacrifice anyone to myself.'

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.

Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration.

Do it first and feel about it afterwards.' - Dagny Taggart

The nation which once held the creed that greatness is achieved by production, is now told that it is achieved by squalor.

When men abandon reason, physical force becomes their only means of dealing with one another and of settling disagreements.