"The recognition of individual rights entails the banishment of physical force from human relationships: basically, rights can be violated only by means of force. In a capitalist society, no man or group may initiate the use of force against others. The only function of the government, in such a society, is the task of protecting man’s rights, i.e., the task of protecting him from physical force."

RAND, Ayn.  Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal. New York: New American Library, 1966. Original black cloth over green cloth spine lettered in silver and in gilt, slipcase with printed paper label. $2800.

"The objective theory (of the Good) holds that the good is neither a attribute of “things in themselves” nor of man’s emotional states, but an evaluation of the facts of reality by man’s consciousness according to a rational standard of value. (Rational, in this context, means: derived from the facts of reality and validated by a process of reason.) The objective theory holds that the good is an aspect of reality in relation to man -- and that it must be discovered, not invented, by man."
                               --Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

Signed limited edition, #68 of 700 copies, signed by Rand on the limitation page.  With additional articles by Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, and Robert Hessen. Very light shelfwear to slipcase, slipcase with limitation number discreetly penned, generally fine.