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• You must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing,…
• The doctrine that 'human rights' are superior to 'property rights' simply means that some human beings have the right to make property…
• I hold that such a question can never arise except in a society of cannibals.
• Since there is no such entity as 'the public,' since the public is merely a number of individuals, the idea that 'the…
• Creation comes before distribution - or there will be nothing to distribute. The need of the creator comes before the need of…
• The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
• If you tell an ugly woman that she is beautiful, you offer her the great homage of corrupting the concept of beauty.
• Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death.
• Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.
• This is the age othe common man, they tell us-a title which any man may claim to the extent osuch distinction as…
• Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a…
• Why is it immoral for you to desire, but moral for others to do so? Why is it immoral to produce a…

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