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

Ayn Rand

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
Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in love, the currency is virtue.
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Business Currency Deal Love Treatment Virtue
The basic need of the creator is independence.
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Creation Independence Need One Liner
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
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
If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
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Control Freedom Government Society
Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortune.
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Labor Misfortune Mortgage Poverty
It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.
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Freedom Impossible Liberty Market Monopoly
To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That’s what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul – would you understand why that’s much harder?
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Compromise Easy Hard Life Sell Soul Understand World
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
We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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Consequences Evade Reality
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 government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
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Constitution Crime Man Protection
Self respect is something that can’t be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man’s pretense at it.
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Kill Man Pretense Self Respect Worst
The problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream.
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Dreams Inspirational Problem

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