You'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.

I think. I am. I will.

The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism.

The more neurotic and evasive a person is, the shorter the range of his interests.

The American businessmen, as a class, have demonstrated the greatest productive genius and the most spectacular achievements ever recorded in the economic history of mankind. What reward did they receive from our culture and its intellectuals? The position of a hated, persecuted minority. The position of a scapegoat for the evils of the bureaucrats.

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

Capitalism demands the best of every man - his rationality - and rewards him accordingly. It leaves every man free to choose the work he likes, to specialize in it, to trade his product for the products of others, and to go as far on the road of achievement as his ability and ambition will carry him.