Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade.

Morally, the promise of an impossible “right” to economic security is an infamous attempt to abrogate the concept of rights. It can and does mean only one thing: a promise to enslave the men who produce, for the benefit of those who don’t.

No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy.

I think that when in doubt about the truth of an issue, it's safer and in better taste to select the least numerous of the adversaries.

Now look at me! Take a good look! I was born and I knew I was alive and I knew what I wanted. What do you think is alive in me? Why do you think I'm alive? Because I have a stomach and eat and digest the food? Because I breathe and work and produce more food to digest? Or because I know what I want, and that something which knows how to want—isn't that life itself? And who—in this damned universe—who can tell me why I should live for anything but for that which I want?

In a capitalist society, all human relationships are voluntary.

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.