My Pledge of Allegiance

I pledge allegiance to each self-loving, self-made individual Whose sole need of men is force-free profitable trade, Who judges aims and acts with his own thinking mind And stands proud to receive judgment, sure and unafraid. I pledge allegiance to the state of individual rights, The law-bound republic of only private property--- Private flesh and thoughts and lands and tools and lives, Where each man holds the wheel of self-responsibility. I pledge allegiance to the rationally selfish self, And to the happiness on earth that each may find; And I pledge totally against the death-blow evils of altruism--- Communism, socialism, fascism, religion and environmentalism. I pledge allegiance to life---human life above all other-- Actual life above potential---fact above wishing. I pledge allegiance to me; yes, to me I pledge allegiance; With myself and by myself and to myself, I pledge allegiance.