"The state is the most dangerous enemy of man's rights. It is the legal, institutionalized, and organized aggressor against his property, his freedom, and his life."

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

"Equality, in the sense of political equality, is equality before the law. But equality of income, equality of property, equality of privilege, equality of anything else, is not equality; it is slavery…"

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

"Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frus…"