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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

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