When men abandon reason, physical force becomes their only means of dealing with one another and of settling disagreements.
Ayn RandPride 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.
Ayn RandYou'd let the whole world perish rather than soil that immaculate self of yours with a single spot of which you'd have to be ashamed.
Ayn RandThe government's only proper job is to protect individual rights against violence by force or fraud ... to protect men from foreign invaders ... to settle disputes among men according to objective laws ... The greatness of the Founding Fathers was how well they understood this issue and how close some of them came to understanding it perfectly.
Ayn Rand