Believing in fate produces fate. Believing in freedom will create infinite possibilities..

The only proper functions of a government are: the police, to protect you from criminals; the army, to protect you from foreign invaders; and the cou….

No man may initiate the use of physical force against others. No man-or group or society or government-has the right to assume the role of a criminal….

We'll meet again. We'll meet when years have passed, and years make such a difference, don't they?.

Nobody has ever given a reason why men should be their brother's keepers..

Talent alone is helpless today. Any success requires both talent and luck. And the 'luck' has to be helped along and provided by someone..

If a dedication page were to precede the total of my work, it would read: To the glory of Man..

She did not know the nature of her loneliness. The only words that named it were: This is not the world I expected..

The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. A proper government is only a….

Whatever road I take, the guiding star is within me; the guiding star and the loadstone which point the way. They point in but one direction. They po….

The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time..

If, before undertaking some action, you must obtain the permission of society-you are not free, whether such permission is granted to you or not. Onl….

No advocate of reason can claim the right to force his ideas on others. No advocate of the free mind can claim the right to force the minds of others….

The majority of those who are loosely identified by the term 'liberals' are afraid to let themselves discover that what they advocate is statism. The….

If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans, I would choose . . . the fact that they were the people who created the phrase "to make ….

Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in love, the currency is virtue. You….

One can't love man without hating most of the creatures who pretend to bear his name..

Reason can be fought with reason. How are you going to fight the unreasonable? The trouble with you, my dear, and with most people, is that you don’t….

Many words have been granted me, and some are wise, and some are false, but only three are holy: "I will it!.

Do not let the hero in your soul perish..

Value is that which one acts to gain and/or keep. Virtue is the act by which one aims and/or keeps it..