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.
AYN RANDThe man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice.
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Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.
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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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The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
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To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.
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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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The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
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I could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.
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When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit.
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The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.
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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth.
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Man cannot survive except through his mind.
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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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The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.
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Patience is always rewarded and romance is always round the corner!
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