Compromise does not satisfy, but dissatisfies everybody; it does not lead to any general fulfillment, but to general frustration; those who try to become everything to all people end up by not being anything to anyone.
AYN RANDThe government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
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An irresponsible person is a person who makes vague promises, then breaks his word, blames it on circumstances and expects other people to forgive it.
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She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness.
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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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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 man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice.
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Patience is always rewarded and romance is always round the corner!
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The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
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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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The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
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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 essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.
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Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
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The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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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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