Ayn Rand

Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims. ”

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual). ”

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason. ”

Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver. ”

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

So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money? ”

It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master. ”

God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive. ”

The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap. ”

To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.' ”