The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
AYN RANDThe only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
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I am done with this creed of corruption.
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Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth.
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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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What is man? He’s just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.
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Freedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
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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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The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.
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There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism – by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.
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A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
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Patience is always rewarded and romance is always round the corner!
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The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.
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Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.
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As we gain knowledge, we do not become more certain, we become certain of more.
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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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