In a fully free society, taxation-or, to be exact, payment for governmental services-would be voluntary.

A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.

She stood at the window, her arms spread wide, holding on to each side of the frame, it was as if she held a piece of the city.

Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.

The [U.S.] Constitution is a limitation on the government, not on private individuals ... it does not prescribe the conduct of private individuals, only the conduct of the government ... it is not a charter for government power, but a charter of the citizen's protection against the government.

A man's ego is the fountainhead of human progress.

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