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More Quotes by Ayn Rand
To preserve one's mind intact through a modern college education is a test of courage and endurance, but the battle is worth it and the stakes are the highest possible to man: the survival of reason.
Do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement.
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.
A businessman cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences; if he fails, he takes the loss. If bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences; if he fails, he passes the loss on to you.
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.
Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked. If a dictatorship ever comes to this country, it will be by the fault of those who keep silent. We are still free enough to speak. Do we have time? No one can tell.
Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money supply required to support deficit spending. No private embezzlers or bank robbers in history have ever plundered people's savings on a scale comparable to the plunder perpetrated by the fiscal policies of statist governments.
If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
