The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
AYN RANDThe Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
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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 entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.
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Don’t ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.
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The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
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The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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Let me give you a tip on a clue to men’s characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.
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The source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.
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I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.
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Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortune.
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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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You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated.
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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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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.
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