The socialists have a certain kind of logic on their side: if the collective sacrifice of all to all is the moral ideal, then they wanted to establish this idea in practice, here and on this earth. The arguments that socialism could not and would not work, did not stop them: neither has altruism ever worked, but this has not caused men to stop and question it. Only reason can ask such questions – and reason, they were told on all sides, has nothing to do with morality, morality lies outside the realm of reason, no rational morality can ever be defined. Ayn Rand
Faith And Force: The Destroyers of the Modern World, Philosophy: Who Needs It
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Men at some time are masters of their fate William Shakespeare Jul …
Men at some time are masters of their fate
William Shakespeare
Jul Caesar, Act i, Sc.2
Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never …
Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent H. L. Mencken
(1880-1956) American journalist, social critic and libertarian
To disarm the people – that is the best and most effective way …
To disarm the people – that is the best and most effective way to enslave them…
Framer of the Declaration of Rights, Virginia,1776, which became the basis for the U.S. Bill of Rights, 3 Elliot, Debate at 380.1725-1792
The Constitution…plainly is not adequate to protect the individual against the …
The Constitution…plainly is not adequate to protect the individual against the growing bureaucracy…. The individual is almost certain to be plowed under, unless he has a well-organized active political group to speak for him. … But if a powerful sponsor is lack, individual liberty withers. Justice William O. Douglas
1968
Events never wait on anyone Robert Jordan Crossroads of Twilight, Wheel of …
Events never wait on anyone
Robert Jordan
Crossroads of Twilight, Wheel of Time, p 542
Judge, and be prepared to be judged. Ayn Rand VOS, (1905-1982)…
Judge, and be prepared to be judged.
Ayn Rand
VOS, (1905-1982)
Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does …
Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it, or even diminish it. Mark Twain
(Samuel Langhorne Clemens): Letter from New York to the Alto Californian, May 28, 1867. (1835-1910)
Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each …
Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other. James Fenimore Cooper
American Author (1789-1851)
Government expands to absorb revenue and then some. Unknown …
Government expands to absorb revenue and then some.
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