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Money permits no deals except those to mutual benefit by the unforced judgment of the traders.

What you owe yourself is to work for your living; what you owe your neighbor is not to interfere with his work.

The freedom of speech of private individuals includes the right not to agree, not to listen and not to finance one's own antagonists.

Inflation is a man-made scourge, made possible by the fact that most men do not understand it.

Life on a desert island is safer and incomparably preferable to existence in Soviet Russia or Nazi Germany.

A being who does not hold his own life as the motive and goal of his actions, is acting on the motive and standard of death.

An emotion is a response to a fact of reality, an estimate dictated by your standards. To love is to value.

"There are no absolutes," they chatter, blanking out the fact that they are uttering an absolute.

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

Each man's fate is essentially his own. Any help you can give him is strictly of a secondary nature.

No coercive monopoly has ever been or ever can be established by means of free trade on a free market.

When one lies, one surrenders his reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked.

An attempt to gain a value by deceiving the mind of others is an act of raising your victims to a position higher than reality.

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

When opposite basic principles are clearly and openly defined, it works to the advantage of the rational side.

When men abandon reason, they find not only that their emotions cannot guide them, but that they can experience no emotions save one: terror.

Both Communism and Catholicism are enemies of the independent mind.

I don't have any faith in anything or anybody, I never have had and never will have. I go by facts and reason.

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

If parasitism, favoritism, corruption, and greed for the unearned did not exist, a mixed economy would bring them into existence.

The fundamental evil of government grants is the fact that men are forced to pay for the support of ideas diametrically opposed to their own.

A double standard of ethics--a demand that some men practice what others do not have to practice--is morally indefensible.

The free-enterpriser works for what he gets. The modern American collectivist grabs what he can get away with.

Whenever a man denounces the mind, it is because his goal is of a nature the mind would not permit him to confess.

Freedom is the fundamental requirement of man's mind.

Without property rights, no other rights are possible.

A man doesn't have to be a genius -- he may be only a good bricklayer -- but if he's good at his work, any work, he will have integrity.

Romantic art is the fuel and the spark plug of a man's soul; its task is to set a soul on fire and never let it go out.

Consciousness-for those living organisms which possess it-is the basic means of survival.

If you choose to live, you must live as a man---by the work and the judgment of your mind.