At first, man was enslaved by the gods. But he broke their chains. Then he was enslaved by the kings. But he broke their chains. He was enslaved by his birth, by his kin, by his race. But he broke their chains. He declared to all his brothers that a man has rights which neither god nor king nor other men can take away from him, no matter what their number, for his is the right of man, and there is no right on earth above this right. And he stood on the threshold of freedom for which the blood of the centuries behind him had been spilled.

We are now moving towards complete collectivism or socialism, a system under which everybody is enslaved to everybody.

Sacrifice does not mean the rejection of the worthless, but of the precious

What is kinder--to believe the best of people and burden them with a nobility beyond their endurance--or to see them as they are, and accept it because it makes them comfortable?

To abstain from condemning a torturer, is to become an accessory to the torture and murder of his victims.

Let me be the child in the story and declare that the Emperor is naked — or that America is culturally bankrupt.

"You were not born to be a second-hander." Howard Roark to Gail Wynand in "The Fountainhead"