Collectivism requires self-sacrifice, the subordination of one's interests to those of others.

In a capitalist society, all human relationships are voluntary.

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

Morality pertains only to the sphere of man's free will - only to those actions which are open to his choice.

But this was that view of human destiny which she had most passionately hated and rejected: the view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but not to achieve. Her life and her values could not bring her to that, she thought; she had never found beauty in longing for the impossible and had never found the possible to be beyond her reach.

Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.

Capitalism has been called nationalistic - yet it is the only system that banished ethnicity, and made it possible, in the United States, for men of various, formerly antagonistic nationalities to live together in peace.