“Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.”

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.

An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.

A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort is not strictly speaking a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang violence.

The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.

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?

Those who assume a character which does not belong to them, only make themselves ridiculous.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

Don’t be too assuming, it doesn’t get you anywhere.

The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.

Never pay attention to the rumors and what they assume.

I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.

No one ever gets tired of loving. But everyone gets tired of waiting, assuming, hearing lies, and hurting.

If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility. You alone are responsible for every moment of your life, for every one of your acts.