Capitalism has been called nationalistic - yet it is the only system that banished ethnicity, and made it possible, in the United States, for men of various, formerly antagonistic nationalities to live together in peace.

In all proper relationships there is no sacrifice of anyone to anyone.

America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes.

Every loneliness is a pinnacle

The American businessmen, as a class, have demonstrated the greatest productive genius and the most spectacular achievements ever recorded in the economic history of mankind. What reward did they receive from our culture and its intellectuals? The position of a hated, persecuted minority. The position of a scapegoat for the evils of the bureaucrats.

the worst wars are religious wars between sects of the same religion or civil wars between brothers of the same race.

Those who say theory and practice are two unrelated realms are fools in one and scoundrels in the other.