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Government Quotes by Ayn Rand

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Ayn Rand describes government as a force that creates monopolies and inflates money by intervening in the economy. She argues that the Constitution limits government power, not private individuals, and that socialism is no different from tyranny. She also claims that depressions and other crises stem from government interference.

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If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.

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A government is the most dangerous threat to man

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The concept of free competition enforced by law is a grotesque contradiction in terms.

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Government holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force.

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All public projects are mausoleums, not always in shapes, but always in cost.

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The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren

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A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against…

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“We are fast approaching the stage of ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while…

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The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.

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Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of…

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All depressions are caused by government interference and the cure is always offered to take more of the poison that caused the…

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Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national…

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The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence.

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The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes…

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If you surrender everything to the government and give it total power to plan the whole economy, this will not guarantee your…

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We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases,…

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“There is no difference between the principles, policies and practical results of socialism—and those of any historical or prehistorical tyranny. Socialism is…

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It is a matter of record that in the German Election of 1933, the Communist Party was ordered by its leaders to…

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There is only one institution that can arrogate to itself the power legally to trade by means of rubber checks: the government.…

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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…

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The source of the government's authority is “the consent of the governed.” This means that the government is not the ruler, but…

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When it is established that government by right can take wealth from some and give it to others. When a society establishes…

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There can be no compromise between freedom and government controls; to accept 'just a few controls' is to surrender the principle of…

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Under fascism, citizens retain the responsibilities of owning property, without freedom to act and without any of the advantages of ownership. Under…

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No individual or private group or private organization has the legal power to initiate the use of physical force against other individuals…

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The goal of the 'liberals' - as it emerges from the record of the past decades - was to smuggle this country…

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There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well,…

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Two world wars, three monstrous dictatorships-in Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany, Red China-plus every lesser variant of devastating socialist experimentation in a global…

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“The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. The only…

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“It is often asked: Why was capitalism destroyed in spite of its incomparably beneficent record? The answer lies in the fact that…

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“The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. A proper…

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Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force…

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The only proper, moral purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence -…

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Government control of the economy, no matter in whose behalf, has been the source of all the evils in our industrial society…

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Freedom, in a political context, means freedom from government coercion. It does not mean freedom from the landlord, from the employer, or…

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Every coercive monopoly was created by government intervention into the economy: by special privileges, such as franchises or subsidies, which closed the…

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“There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well,…

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Censorship' is a term pertaining only to governmental action. No private action is censorship. No private individual or agency can silence a…

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The government has created a nation of paper criminals. People can be put in jail and lose civil rights and liberties through…

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The right of a nation to determine its own form of government does not include the right to establish a slave society…

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Every coercive monopoly was created by government intervention into the economy: by special privileges, such as franchises or subsidies, which closed the entry of…

We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.