The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
AYN RANDIdentify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
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I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.
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The problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream.
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Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter.
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The basic need of the creator is independence.
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The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
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My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.
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Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.
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Don’t ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.
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Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government
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I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.
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A businessman cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences; if he fails, he takes the loss. If bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences; if he fails, he passes the loss on to you.
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You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated.
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I don’t wish to be the symbol of anything. I’m only myself.
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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That’s what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul – would you understand why that’s much harder?
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