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

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

" Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver. "

" 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. "

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

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

" If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject. "

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

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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. "

" When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason. "

" The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth. "

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

" 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. "