Ayn Rand

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

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.

Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.