The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
AYN RANDCompromise 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.
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Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortune.
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I love you so much that nothing can matter to me, not even you, only my love, not your answer, not even your indifference
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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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There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
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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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Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.
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Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
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If one’s actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.
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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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The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.
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I don’t wish to be the symbol of anything. I’m only myself.
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Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.
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An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.
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It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.
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The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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