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" Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth. "

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" Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off. "

" I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build. "

" Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future. "

" 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. "

" Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual). "

" Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think. "

" A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving. "

" Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values. "

" So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money? "

" From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind. "

" Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values. "

" Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property. "

" The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live. "

" Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. "

" Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter. "

" The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see. "

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" It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master. "

" The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap. "

" We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force. "

" Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another. "

" To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power. "

" The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it. "

" A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom. "

" Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law. "

" To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.' "

" To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality. "

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

" Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone. "

" Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob. "

" Money is the barometer of a society's virtue. "