Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.

Do not make the mistake of the ignorant who think that an individualist is a man who says: “I’ll do as I please at everybody else’s expense.” An individualist is a man who recognizes the inalienable individual rights of man—his own and those of others.

To preserve one's mind intact through a modern college education is a test of courage and endurance, but the battle is worth it and the stakes are the highest possible to man: the survival of reason.

Government holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force.

Happiness is not to be achieved at the command of emotional whims.

Every period ruled by mystics was an era of stagnation and want, when most men were on strike against existence.

The man who refuses to judge, who neither agrees nor disagrees, who declares that there are no absolutes and believes that he escapes responsibility, is the man responsible for all the blood that is now spilled in the world