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The free market is ruled by those who are able to see and plan long-range - and the better the mind, the longer the range.

The fact is that men do not live in lifeboats - and that a lifeboat is not the place on which to base one's metaphysics.

Concrete problems cannot even be grasped, let alone judged or solved, without reference to abstract principles.

I am not brave enough to be a coward. I see the consequences too clearly.

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

Altruism is incompatible with freedom, with capitalism and with individual rights.

Truth is the recognition of reality; reason, man's only means of knowledge, is his only standard of truth.

Whoever claims the "right" to "redistribute" the wealth produced by others is claiming the "right" to treat human beings as chattel.

There is no honest revolt against reason.

The smallest minority on earth is the individual.

Neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims.

Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.

There is nothing so naive as cynicism.

All work is an act of philosophy.

The capacity for unclouded enjoyment does not belong to fools; an inviolate peace of spirit is not the achievement of a drifter.

If you are afraid of people's irrationality, you will not protect yourself by assuring them that their irrational notions are right.

The most important thing in life is never to surrender one's concept of what is right, what life could be and should be.

There is no clash of interests among men who do not demand the unearned and do not practice human sacrifices.

Your mind is your only judge of truth---and if others dissent from your verdict, reality is the court of final appeal.

Life is the reward of virtue---and happiness is the goal and the reward of life.

We cannot save the system of free enterprise while we ourselves hold the moral beliefs of its enemies.

Man cannot survive except by gaining knowledge, and reason is his only means to gain it.

There is nothing as glamorous as a brilliant achievement of the human mind.

The guillotine is implicit in the idea of altruism.

Instead of prosperity, socialism has brought economic paralysis and/or collapse to every country that tried it.

The value of facts lies in their proper appraisal and interpretation.

Until the morality of altruism is blasted out of people's minds, nothing will save us from communism in one form or another.

Neither a man nor a nation can have a practical policy without any basic principles to integrate it, to set its goals and guide its course.

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

The art of any given period or culture is a faithful mirror of that culture's philosophy.