I am interested in politics only in order to secure and protect freedom.

Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own - they have no inkling of the loneliness that comes when you reach the top. The loneliness for an equal - for a mind to respect and an achievement to admire.

There are no contradictions. If you find one, check your premises.

Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.

The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.

Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.

Dagny, we can never lose the things we live for. We may have to change their form at times, if we've made an error, but the purpose remains the same and the forms are ours to make.