Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others.

An honest man is one who knows that he can't consume more than he has produced.

She thought: at this moment, the glass stem between his fingers feels just like the one between mine. We have this much in common.

If some men are entitled by right to the products of the work of others, it means that those others are deprived of rights and condemned to slave labor.

Collectivism holds that the individual has no rights, that his life and work belong to the group (to "society," to the tribe, the state, the nation) and that the group may sacrifice him at its own whim to its own interests. The only way to implement a doctrine of that kind is by means of brute force - and statism has always been the poltical corollary of collectivism.

Freedom, in a political context, means freedom from government coercion. It does not mean freedom from the landlord, from the employer, or freedom from the laws of nature which do not provide men with automatic prosperity. It means freedom from the coercive power of the state ' and nothing else

The man without a purpose is a man who drifts at the mercy of random feelings or unidentified urges and is capable of any evil, because he is totally out of control of his own life. In order to be in control of your life, you have to have a purpose-a productive purpose.