Remember that rights are moral principles which define and protect a man's freedom of action, but impose no obligations on other men.

If he can give his readers no reason why they should read his book, except that the events happened to him, it is not a valid book.

An emotion is an automatic response, an automatic effect of man's value premises. An effect, not a cause. There is no necessary clash, no dichotomy between man's reason and his emotions

When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice, you may know that your society is doomed

Guilt is a rope that wears thin.

The Founding Fathers were neither passive, death-worshipin g mystics nor mindless, power-seeking looters; as a political group they were a phenomenon unprecedented in history: they were thinkers who were also men of action.

Collectivism is the ancient principle of savagery. ... Collectivism is not the 'New Order of Tomorrow.' It is the order of a very dark yesterday.