1. Is there any hope for the future of this country? Yes, there is. This country has one asset left: the matchless productive ability of its people. If, and to the extent that, this ability is liberated, we might still have a chance to avoid a collapse. - #aynrand
2. We cannot expect to reach the ideal overnight, but we must...reveal its name. We must reveal to this country the secret which all those posturing intellectuals of any political denomination..are trying so hard to cover up: that the name of that miraculous productive system is:
3. By their silence—by their evasion of the clash between capitalism and altruism—it is capitalism’s alleged champions who are responsible for the fact that capitalism is being destroyed without a hearing, without a trial, without any public knowledge of its principles .... - AR
4. ..its nature, its history, or its moral meaning. “Capitalism” is being destroyed in the manner of a nightmare lynching—as if a blind, despair-crazed mob were burning a straw man, not knowing that the grotesquely deformed bundle of straw is hiding the living body of the ideal.
5. The method of capitalism’s destruction rests on never letting the world discover what it is that is being destroyed—on never allowing it to be identified within the hearing of the young - AR... This has been what the liberals have done to our young with #Alinsky tactics
6. Capitalism is NEW... It has not always been... We have taken it for granted.... And now we are faced with a generation of uneducated youth being led by a political elite class in it for themselves following #Alinsky and a default of altruism.
7. 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. - AR
8. Do not make the error of reversing cause and effect: the good of the country was made possible.. by the fact that it was not forced on anyone as a moral.. duty; it was merely an effect...man’s right to pursue his own good. It is this right that is the moral justification of

10. America was founded on reason and individualism, on man's right to exist and achieve. It cannot survive with altruism as a moral basis of its politics.
11. The purpose of government is to protect man’s inalienable rights. It is NOT to steal from one to give to another, claiming altruism as the moral backbone.