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

You know what you are actually in love with? Integrity. The impossible. The clean, consistent, reasonable, self-faithful, the all-of-one-style, like a work of art.

The concept of individual rights is so prodigious a feat of political thinking that few men grasp it fully - and two hundred years have not been enough for other countries to understand it. But this is the concept to which we owe our lives - the concept which made it possible for us to bring into reality everything of value that any of us did or will achieve or experience.

Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.

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

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.

the worst wars are religious wars between sects of the same religion or civil wars between brothers of the same race.