That’s what we ought to find out. Not just what you said. Not just business and earning a living. Things like winning battles, or saving people out of fires, or climbing mountains.
If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing.
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.
If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
Our culture is dying because our universities have to depend on the alms of the meat packers, the steel puddlers and the purveyors of breakfast cereals.
Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
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.
If a businessman makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences. If a bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences.
Wisdom lies in knowing when to remember and when to forget. Consistency is not a habit of mind which it is wise to practice or to expect of the human race.
Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
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
Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.
Do not ever say that the desire to “do good” by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.
The most depraved type of human being is the man without a purpose.
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.
The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
But why should you care what people will say? All you have to do is please yourself.
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.
The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
Wealth is the product of man’s capacity to think.
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don’t sit looking at it – walk.
Man’s unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.
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.
Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.
When he was asked what he would want to do, he answered at once, “Whatever is right,” and added, “You ought to do something great . . . I mean, the two of us together.
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is
The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.
Money is the barometer of a society’s virtue.
Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
When you have established that one alternative is good and the other is evil, there is no justification for the choice of a mixture. There is no justification ever for choosing any part of what you know to be evil
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.
The source of the government's authority is “the consent of the governed.” This means that the government is not the ruler, but the servant or agent of the citizens; it means that the government as such has no rights except the rights delegated to it by the citizens for a specific purpose.
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