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.
AYN RAND
What is man? He’s just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.
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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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If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
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I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
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My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.
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Don’t ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.
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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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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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Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government
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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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The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.
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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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The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
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It 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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