You don't love causes. You don't love everybody indiscriminately. You love only those who deserve it.

Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others.

The worst guilt is to accept an undeserved guilt — and that is what you have been doing all your life.

The degree of a country's freedom is the degree of its prosperity.

I would step in the way of a bullet if it were aimed at my husband. It is not self-sacrifice to die protecting that which you value: If the value is great enough, you do not care to exist without it.

Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortu ne is not a mortgage on achievement-fai lure is not a mortgage on success-sufferi ng is not a claim check, and its relief is not the goal of existence-man is not a sacrificial animal on anyone’s altar nor for anyone’s cause-life is not one huge hospital.

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