Only a man of integrity can possess the virtue of honesty, since only the faking of one’s consciousness can permit the faking of existence.

I guard my treasures: my thoughts, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom.

Everyone has the right to make his own decisions, but none has the right to force his decision on others.

Capitalism is not the system of the past; it is the system of the future -- if mankind is to have a future

Collectivism, as an intellectual power and a moral ideal, is dead. But freedom and individualism, and their political expression, capitalism, have not yet been discovered.

Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. It is the notion of ascribing moral, social or political significance to a man’s genetic lineage-the notion that a man’s intellectual and characterologic al traits are produced and transmitted by his internal body chemistry.

No individual or private group or private organization has the legal power to initiate the use of physical force against other individuals or groups and to compel them to act against their own voluntary choice. Only a government holds that power. The nature of governmental action is: coercive action. The nature of political power is: the power to force obedience under threat of physical injury-the threat of property expropriation, imprisonment, or death.