The virtue involved in helping those one loves is not 'selflessness' or 'sacrifice,' but integrity.
Ayn RandThe government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
Ayn RandLove, friendship, respect, admiration are the emotional response of one man to the virtues of another, the spiritual payment given in exchange for the personal, selfish pleasure which one man derives from the virtues of another manโs character.
Ayn RandThe nation which once held the creed that greatness is achieved by production, is now told that it is achieved by squalor.
Ayn Rand