“Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortune.”

The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.

We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.

Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.

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

Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.

People don’t want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think.

Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.

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.

To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That’s what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul – would you understand why that’s much harder?

Self respect is something that can’t be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man’s pretense at it.

A businessman cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences; if he fails, he takes the loss. If bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences; if he fails, he passes the loss on to you.

My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.

I could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.

The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.

If one’s actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

God sells us all things at the price of labor.

Women should have free access to every field of labor which they care to enter, and when their work is as valuable as that of a man it should be paid as highly.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.