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More Quotes by Ayn Rand
If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
I guard my treasures: my thoughts, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom.
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.
Do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement.
The evasion of responsibility is the major cause of most peoples frustrations and defeats.
You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.
It is not fools that I seek to address.
Everyone has the right to make his own decisions, but none has the right to force his decision on others.
The majority of those who are loosely identified by the term 'liberals' are afraid to let themselves discover that what they advocate is statism. They want to keep all the advantages and effects of capitalism, while destroying the cause, and they want to establish statism without its necessary effects. They do not want to know or to admit that they are the champions of dictatorship and slavery.
