A culture is made — or destroyed — by its articulate voices.

The men who attempt to survive, not by means of reason, but by means of force, are attempting to survive by the method of animals.

If you write a whole line of zeroes, it's still — nothing.

They talked about nothing in particular, sentences that had meaning only in the sound of the voices, in warm gaiety, in the ease of complete relaxation.

If some men are entitled by right to the products of the work of others, it means that those others are deprived of rights and condemned to slave labor.

America's abundance was created not 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. They did not starve the people to pay for America's industrialization. They gave the people better jobs, higher wages, and cheaper goods with every new machine they invented, with every scientific discovery or technological advance- and thus the whole country was moving forward and profiting, not suffering, every step of the way.

Do not make the mistake of the ignorant who think that an individualist is a man who says: “I’ll do as I please at everybody else’s expense.” An individualist is a man who recognizes the inalienable individual rights of man—his own and those of others.