She did not know the nature of her loneliness. The only words that named it were: This is not the world I expected.

All depressions are caused by government interference and the cure is always offered to take more of the poison that caused the disaster. Depressions are not the result of a free economy.

What is morality, she asked. Judgement to distinguish right and wrong, vision to see the truth, and courage to act upon it, dedication to that which is good, integrity to stand by the good at any price.

Dagny, we can never lose the things we live for. We may have to change their form at times, if we've made an error, but the purpose remains the same and the forms are ours to make.

To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.

There is nothing to take a man’s freedom away from him, save other men.

There can be no justification for choosing any part of that which one knows to be evil.