to rest one's case on faith means to concede that reason is on the side of one's enemies- that one has no rational arguments to offer.

Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long time is that none of us has ever been permitted to think he is born a d'Anconia. We are expected to become one.

We are one...alone...and only...and we love you who are one...alone...and only. We looked into each other's eyes and we knew the breath of a miracle had touched us, and fled, and left us groping vainly. And we felt torn, torn for some word we could not find.

Money is so noble a medium that it does not compete with guns and it does not make terms with brutality. It will not permit a country to survive as half-property, half-loot.

The cult of moral grayness is a revolt against moral values.

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

There are no little people in America. There are only people, equal before the law, yearning to breathe free and wanting to achieve the best within them.