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Statism is a system of institutionalized violence and perpetual civil war. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by production.

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The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.
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Difference Matter State Time Welfare
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
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Achievement Beat Creative Desire Man Motivational
Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth.
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Capital Creation Earth High Live Standard
I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
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Life Live Love Man Sake Swear
A culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.
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Achievement Culture Indifference Individual Intellectual Mass Men Product
An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.
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Character Consume Honesty Man Produce
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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Failure Humanity Individual Live Possible Worship
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
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Claim Defend Earth Individual Politics Rights
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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Approach Evil Life Man Money Run Sentence
Statism is a system of institutionalized violence and perpetual civil war. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by production.
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Civil Institution Production Survival System Violence War
The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
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Argument Confession Intellectual Intimidate
A man’s sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.
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Conviction Fundamental Man Result Sex
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
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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Achievement Community Ending Except Murder Social Suicide Ultimate Vote
It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
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Avoid Death Life Live Positive
The problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream.
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Dreams Inspirational Problem

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