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- The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
- Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish…
- When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce, you need to…
- The government's only proper job is to protect individual rights against violence by force or fraud ... to protect men from foreign invaders ... to…
- What is the basic, the essential, the crucial principle that differentiates freedom from slavery? It is the principle of voluntary action versus physical coercion or…
- 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 government…
- The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence.
- "Judge not, that ye be not judge"... is an abdication of moral responsibility: it is a moral blank check one gives to others in exchange…
- No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it. It is only with your own…
- I am opposed to all forms of control; I am for an absolute laissez faire, free, unregulated economy. I am for the separation of the…
- They proclaim that every man is entitled to exist without labor and, the laws of reality to the contrary notwithstanding, is entitled to receive his…
- Did it ever occur to you, that there is no conflict of interests among men, neither in business nor in trade nor in their most…
- The only proper functions of a government are: the police, to protect you from criminals; the army, to protect you from foreign invaders; and the…
- An animal is equipped for sustaining its life; its senses provide it with an automatic code of action, an automatic knowledge of what is good…
- All "public interest' legislation (and any distribution of money taken by force from some men for the unearned benefit of others) comes down ultimately to…
- If it were true that men could achieve their good by means of turning some men into sacrificial animals, and . . . if I…
- Laissez-faire capitalism is the only social system based on the recognition of individual rights and, therefore, the only system that bans force from social relationships.
- I cannot stand Tolstoy, and reading him was the most boring literary duty I ever had to perform, his philosophy and his sense of life…
- Whether it’s a symphony or a coal mine, all work is an act of creating and comes from the same source: from an inviolate capacity…
- Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.
- Love, friendship, respect, admiration are the emotional response of one man to the virtues of another, the spiritual payment given in exchange for the personal,…
- 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…
- If you want to save capitalism there is only one type of argument that you should adopt, the only one that has ever won in…
- Self-esteem is reliance on one's power to think. It cannot be replaced by one's power to deceive. The self-confidence of a scientist and the self-confidence…
- A rational man knows-or makes it a point to discover-the source of his emotions, the basic premises from which they come.
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