The attack on "selfishness" is an attack on man's self-esteem; to surrender one, is to surrender the other.

She looked at the crowd and she felt simultaneously astonishment that they should stare at her when this event was so personally her own that no communication about it was possible and a sense of fitness that they should be here that they should want to see it. Because the sight of an achievement was the greatest gift a human being could offer to others.

All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative.

Whoever defends his own rights defends the rights of all.

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority.

You must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary consequences.

Without property rights, no other rights are possible.