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More Quotes by Ayn Rand
I guard my treasures: my thoughts, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom.
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.
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.
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
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.
When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice, you may know that your society is doomed
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.
It is not fools that I seek to address.
