But what man does out of despair, is not necessarily a key to his character. I have always thought that the real key is in that which he seeks for his enjoyment.

Never ask people. Not about your work. Don't you know what you want? How can you stand it, not to know?

Man cannot demand that others give up their lives to make him happy.

If some men are entitled by right to the products of the work of others, it means that those others are deprived of rights and condemned to slave labor.

The goal of the 'liberals' - as it emerges from the record of the past decades - was to smuggle this country into welfare statism by means of single, concrete, specific measures, enlarging the power of the government a step at a time, never permitting these steps to be summed up into principles, never permitting their direction to be identified or the basic issue to be named. Thus, statism was to come, not by vote or by violence, but by slow rot - by a long process of evasion and epistemological corruption, leading to a fait accompli.

It is morally obscene to regard wealth as an anonymous, tribal product and to talk about 'redistributing' it.

A rational man never distorts or corrupts his own standards and judgment in order to appeal to the irrationality, stupidity, or dishonesty of others.