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For the coming of that day shall I fight, I and my sons and my chosen friends. For the freedom of Man. For his rights. For his life. For his honor.

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I wish I had the power to tell them that the despair of their hearts was not to be final, and their night was not without hope. For the battle they lo...more

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These are the things before me. And as I stand here at the door of glory, I look behind me for the last time. I look upon the history of men, which I ...more

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I stand here on the summit of the mountain. I lift my head and I spread my arms. This, my body and spirit, this is the end of the quest. I wished to k...more

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At first, man was enslaved by the gods. But he broke their chains. Then he was enslaved by the kings. But he broke their chains. He was enslaved by hi...more

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Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade...

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There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough crimina...more

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Since knowledge, thinking, and rational action are properties of the individual, since the choice to exercise his rational faculty or not depends on t...more

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I take the only desire one can really permit oneself. Freedom, Alvah, freedom.”“You call that freedom?”“To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend o...more

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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 i...more

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Collectivism means the subjugation of the individual to a group—whether to a race, class or state does not matter. Collectivism holds that man must be...more

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When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you – you know your nation is doomed.

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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 ...more

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Socialism may be established by force, as in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics—or by vote, as in Nazi (National Socialist) Germany. The degree o...more

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A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort, or enslaves him, or attempts to limit the freedom of his mind, or compels him to act a...more