Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men's protection, and the base of a moral existence.

Of all the statist violations of individual rights in a mixed economy, the military draft is the worst. It is an abrogation of rights. It negates man’s fundamental right-the right to life-and establishes the fundamental principle of statism: that a man’s life belongs to the state, and the state may claim it by compelling him to sacrifice it in battle. Once that principle is accepted, the rest is only a matter of time.

Each man must live as an end in himself and follow his own rational self-interest.

When she had gone upstairs, he walked to a window and stood looking up at the sky. His head thrown back, he felt the pull of his throat muscles and he wondered whether the peculiar solemnity of looking at the sky comes, not from what one contemplates, but from that uplift of one's head.

If any part of your uncertainty, is a conflict between your heart and your mind - follow your mind.

Mysticism requires the notion of the unknowable, which is revealed to some and withheld from others; this divides men into those who feel guilt and those who cash in on it.

There is no such dichotomy as 'human rights' versus 'property rights.' No human rights can exist without property rights.