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If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.

Ayn Rand

A government is the most dangerous threat to man’s rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
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Against Danger Force Government Legal Man Physical Rights Victim
Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.
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Attempt Emotion Perceive Process Rational Reality
To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.
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Deal Force Men Nature Practical
Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.
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Claim Human Liberty Produce Treatment Wealth
I don’t wish to be the symbol of anything. I’m only myself.
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Be Yourself Myself Symbol
People don’t want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think.
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Human Nature People Thinking Trouble Want
Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.
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Existence Men Reason Rejection Responsiblity Thinking
The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.
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Intend Man Master Sacrifice Slave Speak
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
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Evil Issue Justice Problem Right Wrong
If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.
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Inspirational One Liner Work Hard Worth
As we gain knowledge, we do not become more certain, we become certain of more.
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Certain Improvement Inspirational Knowledge Learning
You love people not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for the values, the virtues, which they have achieved in their own character.
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Achievement Character Love People Value Virtue
Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
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Driver Money replace Tool
Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment’s torture.
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Achievement Existence Goals Joy Moments Stumble Torture Vision
A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort is not strictly speaking a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang violence.
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Effort Gang Individual Institution Product Society Speak Strict Togetherness Violence
The source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.
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Authority Consent Government Source

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