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.

In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.

That an error made on your own is safer than ten truths accepted on faith, because the first leaves you the means to correct it but the second destroys your capacity to distinguish truth from error.

No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy.

Toohey: "Mr. Roark, we're alone here. Why don't you tell me what you think of me? In any words you wish. No one will hear us." Roark: "But I don't think of you.

If one's actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.

Money is just a tool. It will take you anywhere you want, but you have to be the driver