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

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

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

" 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. "

" When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

The Hardest Thing

" The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt. "

" 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). "

" Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice. "

" Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision. "

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

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

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