All public projects are mausoleums, not always in shapes, but always in cost. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The concept of free competition enforced by law is a grotesque contradiction in terms. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
All depressions are caused by government interference and the cure is always offered to take more of the poison that caused the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
All the evils, abuses, and iniquities, popularly ascribed to businessmen and to capitalism, were not caused by an unregulated economy or by… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Every coercive monopoly was created by government intervention into the economy: by special privileges, such as franchises or subsidies, which closed the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The government has created a nation of paper criminals. People can be put in jail and lose civil rights and liberties through… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is true that the welfare-statists are not socialists, that they never advocated or intended the socialization of private property, that they… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. A proper… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There can be no compromise between freedom and government controls; to accept 'just a few controls' is to surrender the principle of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
No man may initiate the use of physical force against others. No man-or group or society or government-has the right to assume… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I am opposed to all forms of control; I am for an absolute laissez faire, free, unregulated economy. I am for the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
No individual or private group or private organization has the legal power to initiate the use of physical force against other individuals… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Two world wars, three monstrous dictatorships-in Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany, Red China-plus every lesser variant of devastating socialist experimentation in a global… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Under fascism, citizens retain the responsibilities of owning property, without freedom to act and without any of the advantages of ownership. Under… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
All "public interest' legislation (and any distribution of money taken by force from some men for the unearned benefit of others) comes… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“It is often asked: Why was capitalism destroyed in spite of its incomparably beneficent record? The answer lies in the fact that… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The source of the government's authority is “the consent of the governed.” This means that the government is not the ruler, but… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The government was set to protect man from criminals-and the constitution was written to protect man from the government. The Bill of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The [U.S.] Constitution is a limitation on the government, not on private individuals ... it does not prescribe the conduct of private… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The only proper functions of a government are: the police, to protect you from criminals; the army, to protect you from foreign… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Freedom, in a political context, means freedom from government coercion. It does not mean freedom from the landlord, from the employer, or… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The only proper, moral purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence -… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is a matter of record that in the German Election of 1933, the Communist Party was ordered by its leaders to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The right of a nation to determine its own form of government does not include the right to establish a slave society… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation of a… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If you surrender everything to the government and give it total power to plan the whole economy, this will not guarantee your… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense of detachment… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“This was reality, she thought, this sense of clear outlines, of purpose, of lightness, of hope.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A “collective” mind does not exist. It is merely the sum of endless numbers of individual minds. If we have an endless number of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation of a mixed economy-of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“She moved her hand and let it rest against his. He did not withdraw his fingers and he did not pretend indifference. She bent… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
This miracle of me is mine to own and keep, and mine to guard, and mine to use, and mine to kneel before. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“There was still one response, the greatest, that she had missed. She thought: To find a feeling that would hold, as their sum, as… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money supply required to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“She was fifteen when it occurred to her for the first time that women did not run railroads and that people might object. To… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
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