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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 prosperity is by keeping its hands off. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#business #disastrous #hands #help #just

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual). ↗

— Ayn Rand

#earth #function #individual #individual rights #majorities

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#becomes #breaking #crack #crime #criminals

Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#another #character #earn #emotional #expression

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#best #climbed #ladder #opportunity #stepping

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#existence #free #his #laws #man

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#builds #choice #choose #escape #every

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#achievement #consciousness #proceeds #state #values

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#men #money #reason #sell #stupidity

I don't want to respond to rumors that have no basis at all... But I am willing to respond to questions that the public and the press should know. ↗

— Charles Rangel

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