The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
AYN RANDIt is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
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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 am done with this creed of corruption.
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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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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.
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She did not know the nature of her loneliness.
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If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.
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Capitalism has been called a system of greed.
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Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically, the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically, it is the erosion of ambition.
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The basic need of the creator is independence.
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Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.
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You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
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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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A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
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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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It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.
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