Thinking men cannot be ruled.

We are born into this world unarmed---our mind is our only weapon.

The only purpose of education is to teach a student how to live his life-by developing his mind and equipping him to deal with reality. The training he needs is theoretical, i.e., conceptual. He has to be taught to think, to understand, to integrate, to prove. He has to be taught the essentials of the knowledge discovered in the past-and he has to be equipped to acquire further knowledge by his own effort.

The action required to sustain human life is primarily intellectual: everything man needs has to be discovered by his mind and produced by his effort

Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.

To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality.