America's founding Ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more - and nothing less.

I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York's skyline.

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority.

Neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims.

An emotion is an automatic response, an automatic effect of man's value premises. An effect, not a cause. There is no necessary clash, no dichotomy between man's reason and his emotions

No man may initiate the use of physical force against others. No man-or group or society or government-has the right to assume the role of a criminal and initiate the use of physical compulsion against any man. Men have the right to use physical force only in retaliation and only against those who initiate its use. The ethical principle involved is simple and clear-cut: it is the difference between murder and self-defense.

Self respect is something that can't be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man's pretense at it.