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More Quotes by Ayn Rand
If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
The evasion of responsibility is the major cause of most peoples frustrations and defeats.
Everyone has the right to make his own decisions, but none has the right to force his decision on others.
You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
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.
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
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 government was set to protect man from criminals-and the constitution was written to protect man from the government. The Bill of Rights was not directed at private citizens, but against the government-as an explicit declaration that individual rights supersede any public or social power.
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.
The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.