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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, not the secondary…
- Creation comes before distribution - or there will be nothing to distribute. The need of the creator comes before the need of any possible beneficiary.…
- The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
- This is the age othe common man, they tell us-a title which any man may claim to the extent osuch distinction as he has managed…
- The action required to sustain human life is primarily intellectual; everything man needs has to be discovered by his mind and produced by his effort.
- Did you get your money by fraud? By pandering to men's vices or men's stupidity? By catering to fools, in the hope of getting more…
- Kill reverence and you've killed the hero in man.
- An honest man is one who knows that he can't consume more than he has produced.
- God help us, ma'am! Do you see what we saw? We saw that we'd been given a law to live by, a moral law, they…
- It does not matter that only a few in each generation will grasp and achieve the full reality of man's proper stature-and the rest will…
- There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force,…
- 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…
- Socialism is the doctrine that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that his life and his work do not belong to…
- To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.
- There are only two means by which men can deal with one another: guns or logic. Force or persuasion. Those who know that they cannot…
- In a capitalist society, all human relationships are voluntary. Men are free to cooperate or not, to deal with one another or not, as their…
- The man who refuses to judge, who neither agrees nor disagrees, who declares that there are no absolutes and believes that he escapes responsibility, is…
- Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth. The evidence is incontrovertible. The contrast between West and East Berlin is the…
- Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught…
- America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal…
- The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence.
- Do not consider Collectivists as "sincere but deluded idealists". The proposal to enslave some men for the sake of others is not an ideal; brutality…
- "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…
- Man is a being with free will; therefore, each man is potentially good or evil, and it's up to him and only him (through his…
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