Freedom, in a political context, means freedom from government coercion. It does not mean freedom from the landlord, from the employer, or freedom from the laws of nature which do not provide men with automatic prosperity. It means freedom from the coercive power of the state ' and nothing else

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

Roark smiled, "Gail, if this boat were sinking, I'd give my life to save you. Not because it's any kind of duty. Only because I like you, for reasons and standards of my own. I could die for you. But I couldn't and wouldn't live for you.

If capitalism had never existed, any honest humanitarian should have been struggling to invent it. But when you see men struggling to evade its existence, to misrepresent its nature, and to destroy its last remnants - you maybe sure that whatever their motives, love of man is not one of them.

Your soul has a single basic function-the act of valuing.

Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.

Don't worry. They're all against me. But I have one advantage: they don't know what they want. I do.