The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

The right to agree with others is not a problem in any society; it is the right to disagree that is crucial. It is the institution of private property that protects and implements the right to disagree - and thus keeps the road open to man's most valuable attribute: the creative mind.

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.

You love only those who deserve it.

John Galt is Prometheus who changed his mind. After centuries of being torn by vultures in payment for having brought to men the fire of the gods, he broke his chains—and he withdrew his fire—until the day when men withdraw their vultures.

As long as men are free to speak, a small, rational minority will always prevail over an irrational majority.

Money is so noble a medium that it does not compete with guns and it does not make terms with brutality. It will not permit a country to survive as half-property, half-loot.