No individual or private group or private organization has the legal power to initiate the use of physical force against other individuals or groups and to compel them to act against their own voluntary choice. Only a government holds that power. The nature of governmental action is: coercive action. The nature of political power is: the power to force obedience under threat of physical injury-the threat of property expropriation, imprisonment, or death.

Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to become the means by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of other men. Blood, whips and guns--or dollars. Take your choice--there is no other.

I am unwilling to be wholly good—and please don't regard me as wholly evil!

I think that when in doubt about the truth of an issue, it's safer and in better taste to select the least numerous of the adversaries.

Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.

You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.

Do it first and feel about it afterwards.' - Dagny Taggart