While, politically, a mixed economy preserves the semblance of an organized society with a semblance of law and order, economically it is the equivalent of the chaos that had ruled China for centuries: a chaos of robber gangs looting-and draining-the productive elements of the country.

The first society in history whose leaders were neither Attilas nor Witch Doctors, a society led, dominated and created by the Producers, was the United States of America.

Just as there is no such thing as a collective or racial mind, so there is no such thing as a collective or racial achievement. There are only individual minds and individual achievements-an d a culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.

Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live.

A gun is not an argument.

My morality, the morality of reason, is contained in a single axiom: existence exists - and in a single choice: to live.

In a free society, one does not have to deal with those who are irrational. One is free to avoid them.