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

Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked. If a dictatorship ever comes to this country, it will be by the fault of those who keep silent. We are still free enough to speak. Do we have time? No one can tell.

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

I am not primarily an advocate of capitalism, but of egoism; I am not primarily an advocate of egoism, but of reason. If one recognizes the supremacy of reason and applies it consistently, all the rest follows.

There is no such thing as a lousy job - only lousy men who don't care to do it.

Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.

Economics departments are dominated by Marxism, which is taken straight or on the rocks, in the form of Keynesianism.