The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

Let me give you a tip on a clue to men’s characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.

The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default; by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.

America’s abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the “common good,” but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes.

I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.

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

A society that tolerates intimidation as a means of settling disputes…loses its moral rights to exist as a social system, and its collapse does not take long to follow.