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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.
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More Quotes by Ayn Rand
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.
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.
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.
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
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.
Everyone has the right to make his own decisions, but none has the right to force his decision on others.
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.
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice, you may know that your society is doomed
