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.
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.
Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
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.
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 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.
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.
Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
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.
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.
Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
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.
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.
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.
