One must never fail to pronounce a moral judgement.
Ayn Rand
VOS, (1905-1982)
Category Archives: Quotations Freedom
So you think that money is the root of all evil? Have …
So you think that money is the root of all evil? Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which can’t exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value. Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim your product by tears, or of the looters, who take it from you by force. Money is made possible only by the men who produce. Is this what you consider evil? Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged,(1905-1982)
Instead of guarding freedom, the government is establishing slavery; instead of protecting …
Instead of guarding freedom, the government is establishing slavery; instead of protecting men from the initiators of physical force, the government is initiating physical force and coercion in any manner and issue it pleases; instead of serving as the instrument of objectivity in human relationships, the government is creating a deadly, subterranean reign of uncertainty and fear, by means of non-objective laws whose interpretation is left to the arbitrary decisions of random bureaucrats; instead of protecting men from injurty by whim, the government is arrogating to itself the power of unlimited whim-so that we are fast approaching ythe stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force. Ayn Rand
Capitalism p. 336
It is not the responsibility of the government or the legal system …
It is not the responsibility of the government or the legal system to protect a citizen from himself. Justice Casey Percell
My God, how little my countrymen know what precious blessings they are …
My God, how little my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of and which no other people on earth enjoy. I confess I had no idea of it myself. While we shall see multiplied instances of Europeans going to live in America, I venture to say, no man now living will ever see an instance of an American removing to settle in Europe, and continuing there. Thomas Jefferson
in a letter from Europe, to James Monroe In 1785
An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power …
An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens. Thomas Jefferson
(1743-1826)
“[T]here can be no justification for a society in which a man is expected to manufacture the weapons for his own murderers.”
“[T]here can be no justification for a society in which a man is expected to manufacture the weapons for his own murderers.” Ayn Rand
A Constitutional Republic must protect the rights of all citizens — rich or …
A Constitutional Republic must protect the rights of all citizens — rich or poor — equally. Taxing one to provide for another makes a slave out of the first and a slave master of the second. Christian H F Riley
-1966
The people are confirmed by the next article of their right to …
The people are confirmed by the next article of their right to keep and bear their private arms. Tench Coxe
Remarks on the First Part of the Amendments to the Federal Constitution, The Federal Gazette and Pennsylvania Evening Post, June 18, 1789
We restored that island [Grenada
We restored that island [Grenada] to liberty. Yes, itÃs only a small island, but thatÃs what the world is made of – small islands yearning for freedom. Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan, Mar 8, 1985
to liberty. Yes, itÃs only a … ]