She thought: at this moment, the glass stem between his fingers feels just like the one between mine. We have this much in common.

To discuss evil in a manner implying neutrality, is to sanction it.

If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.

Of all the statist violations of individual rights in a mixed economy, the military draft is the worst. It is an abrogation of rights. It negates man’s fundamental right-the right to life-and establishes the fundamental principle of statism: that a man’s life belongs to the state, and the state may claim it by compelling him to sacrifice it in battle. Once that principle is accepted, the rest is only a matter of time.

Do not make the mistake of the ignorant who think that an individualist is a man who says: “I’ll do as I please at everybody else’s expense.” An individualist is a man who recognizes the inalienable individual rights of man—his own and those of others.

Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.

Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.