Ayn Rand - Quotes
"America's abundance
was created not by public sacrifices to "the common good," but
by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal
interests and the making of their own private fortunes. They did not
starve the people to pay for America's industrialization. They gave the
people better jobs, higher wages and cheaper goods with every new machine
they invented, with every scientific discovery or technological advance --
and thus the whole country was moving forward and profiting, not
suffering, every step of the way." (Ayn Rand)
"Today, when a
concerted effort is made to obliterate this point, it cannot be repeated
too often that the Constitution is a limitation on the government, not on
private individuals. That it does not prescribe the conduct of private
individuals, only the conduct of the Government. That it is not a charter
for government power, but a charter of the citizen's protection against
the government." --Ayn Rand
"Economic power is
exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive,
a payment, a value; political power is exercised by means of a negative,
by the threat of punishment, injury, imprisonment, and destruction. The
businessman's tool is values; the bureaucrat's tool is fear." --Ayn
Rand
The right to life is the
source of all rights - and the right to property is their only
implementation. Without property rights, no other rights are possible.
Since man has to sustain his life
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