The right to agree with others is not a problem in any society; it is the right to disagree that is crucial. It is the institution of private property that protects and implements the right to disagree - and thus keeps the road open to man's most valuable attribute: the creative mind.

There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism - by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.

No happy person can be quite so impervious to pain (Gail Wynand to Dominique Francon)

A culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.

One method of destroying a concept is by diluting its meaning. Observe that by ascribing rights to the unborn, i.e., the nonliving, the anti-abortionists obliterate the rights of the living.

Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants.

to rest one's case on faith means to concede that reason is on the side of one's enemies- that one has no rational arguments to offer.