Since time immemorial and pre-industrial, 'greed' has been the accusation hurled at the rich by the concrete-bound illiterates who were unable to conceive of the source of wealth or of the motivation of those who produce it.

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

When personal judgment is inoperative (or forbidden), men's first concern is not how to choose, but how to justify their choice

Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.

Ever since Kant divorced reason from reality, his intellectual descendants have been diligently widening the breach.

Man—every man—is an end in himself, not a means to the ends of others; he must live for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself; he must work for his rational self-interest, with the achievement of his own happiness as the highest moral purpose of his life.

Collectivism requires self-sacrifice, the subordination of one's interests to those of others.