“Let every man choose his own guardian and guide.”

“You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise… guided by your own virtue and highest ambition”

“A man should have the right to choose his own shoes.”

“Let every man be master of his time.”

“Which ever one of you will want to become a journalist, let him remember to choose his own master: the reader.”

“Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free to choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to talk, think and act for myself — and I will obey every law or submit to the penalty.”

“You should have access to ideas and information regardless of your age. If anyone is going to limit or guide a young person, it should be the parent or guardian — and only the parent or guardian.”

“Every man's happiness is his own responsibility.”

“Every man prays in his own language.”

“Objectivism's philosophy of man begins with the fact that man is a being of volitional consciousness: man is the one animal who has to choose to be conscious, to use his mind. Man is a rational animal, and reason is his only guide to knowledge, reason being that faculty which identifies and integrates the material provided by man's senses.”