America’s founding ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothi…

Ayn Rand
779 citations
America’s founding ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more-and nothing less. The rest-everything that America achieved, everything she became, everything 'noble and just,' and heroic, and great, and unprecedented in human history-was the logical consequence of fidelity to that one principle. ✨ Ayn Rand (1988). The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z, p.37, Penguin
Humanity Thought
28

More Author Quotes

When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is. ✨ Ayn Rand (2005). Atlas Shrugged, p.103, Penguin
Why had we let it go? Why had we both been condemned...to an exile among dreary strangers who had made us give up all desire for rest, for friendship, for the sound of human voices? Could I now recla … ▶
Ideas cannot be fought except by means of better ideas. The battle consists, not of opposing, but of exposing; not of denouncing, but of disproving; not of evading, but of boldly proclaiming a full, … ▶
As a cultural-intellectual power and a moral ideal, collectivism died in World War II. If we are still rolling in its direction, it is only by the inertia of a void and the momentum of disintegration … ▶
Individualism regards man - every man - as an independent, sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life, a right derived from his nature as a rational being. Individualism hold … ▶

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes