I am an intransigent atheist, though not a militant one. This means that I am not fighting against religion - I am fighting for reason.

I want to be prepared to claim the greatest virtue of all - that I was a man who made money

The degree of a country's freedom is the degree of its prosperity.

The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments.

The good, say the mystics of spirit, is God, a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive — a definition that invalidates man's consciousness and nullifies his concepts of existence. The good, say the mystics of muscle, is Society — a thing which they define as an organism that possesses no physical form, a super-being embodied in no one in particular and everyone in general except yourself.... The purpose of man's life, say both, is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is not to question.

Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live.

That time and those people are upon you!