Don’t ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.
That an error made on your own is safer than ten truths accepted on faith, because the first leaves you the means to correct it but the second destroys your capacity to distinguish truth from error.
It’s good to suffer. Dont complain. Bear, bow, accept – and be grateful that God has made you suffer. For this makes you better than the people who are laughing and happy.
Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.
Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority.
To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.
The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.
Thinking men cannot be ruled; ambitious men do not stagnate.
The purpose of the law is not to prevent a future offense, but to punish the one actually committed.
Individualism regards man-every man-as an independent, sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life, a right derived from his nature as a rational being.
I owe nothing to my brothers, nor do I gather debts from them. I ask none to live for me, nor do I live for any others. I covet no man’s soul, nor is my soul theirs to covet.
Love is the expression of one’s values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.
One of the methods used by statists to destroy capitalism consists in establishing controls that tie a given industry hand and foot, making it unable to solve its problems, then declaring that freedom has failed and stronger controls are necessary.
To be the kind of writer you want to be, you must first be the kind of thinker you want to be.
I am not the means to any end others may wish to accomplish. I am not a tool for their use. I am not a servant of their needs. I am not a bandage for their wounds, I am not a sacrifice on their altars.
The man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave.
You must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary consequences.
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.
The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.