Ask anything of men. Ask them to achieve wealth, fame, love, brutality, murder, self-sacrifice. But don’t ask them to achieve self-respect. They will hate your soul.

Collectivism, as an intellectual power and a moral ideal, is dead. But freedom and individualism, and their political expression, capitalism, have not yet been discovered.

You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.

Every loneliness is a pinnacle

The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.

Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.

The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. A proper government is only a policeman, acting as an agent of man's self-defense, and, as such, may only resort to force only against those who start the use of force.