Quote by Ayn Rand
Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to mans rig

Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to mans rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims. – Ayn Rand

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Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savages whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. – Ayn Rand

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Men
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I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine. – Ayn Rand

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Life
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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

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power
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What the Lib Dems have failed to do is offer any meaningful agenda for government or for power. – Lucy Powell

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Government

Half the states have stopped making civics and government a requirement for high school. Half. – Sandra Day OConnor

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Government

Indiscriminate firing by police on people is absolute barbarism. Instead of solving their problems, the government is trying to suppress the people by force. – Sheikh Hasina

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Government

People in government and public life are being kicked around at a high rate of speed. – Arlen Specter

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Random Quotes

Easy reading is damn hard writing. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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You speak of Lord Byron and me there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task. – John Keats

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Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble. – Sir Walter Scott

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My dad was an editor and a writer, and thats actually what I aspired to be. – Anne M. Mulcahy

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