The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
AYN RANDLove is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.
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Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
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The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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The man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice.
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Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.
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Patience is always rewarded and romance is always round the corner!
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The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
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Let me give you a tip on a clue to men’s characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.
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Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked.
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The problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream.
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Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth.
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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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Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically, the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically, it is the erosion of ambition.
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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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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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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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