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" Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started. "

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" There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt. "

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

" 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. "

" The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity. "

" Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death. "

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

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" A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. "

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

" 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. "

" Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins. "

" 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. "

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

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

" There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist. "

" God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive. "

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

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

" Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself. "

" Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives. "

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

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

" The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me. "

" People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk. "

" The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. "