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  <Quote>
    <Author>H.G. Wells</Author>
    <Text>The law giver, of all beings, most owes the law
    allegiance. He of all men should behave as though the law
    compelled him. But it is the universal weakness of mankind that
    what we are given to administer we presently imagine we
    own.</Text>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it
    today.</Text>
    <Topic>Other</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>To love is to value. Only a rationally selfish man, a man
    of self-esteem, is capable of love - because he is the only man
    capable of holding firm, consistent, uncompromising, unbetrayed
    values. The man who does not value himself, cannot value
    anything or anyone.</Text>
    <Topic>Love/Romance/Sex</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>Honor is self-esteem made visible in action.</Text>
    <Topic>Ethics/Morality</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>Men have been taught that the ego is the synonym of evil,
    and selflessness the ideal of virtue. But the creator is the
    egoist in the absolute sense, and the selfless man is the one
    who does not think, feel, judge or act. These are function of
    the self.</Text>
    <Topic>Ethics/Morality</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds
    from the achievement of one's values.</Text>
    <Topic>Ethics/Morality</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>Rights are moral principles which define and protect a
    man's freedom of action,but impose no obligation on other
    men.</Text>
    <Topic>Politics/Government</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Thomas Jefferson</Author>
    <Text>I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility
    against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.</Text>
    <Topic>Politics/Government</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Golda Meir</Author>
    <Text>Don't be so humble - you are not that great.</Text>
    <Topic>Other</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>General George S. Patton</Author>
    <Text>If a man does his best, what else is there?</Text>
    <Topic>Other</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Warren Zevon</Author>
    <Text>I'll sleep when I'm dead.</Text>
    <Topic>Other</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Henry Ford</Author>
    <Text>Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you
    take your eyes off your goal.</Text>
    <Topic>Other</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Aristotle</Author>
    <Text>Wit is educated insolence.</Text>
    <Topic>Other</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Samuel Palmer</Author>
    <Text>Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.</Text>
    <Topic>Other</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Aristotle</Author>
    <Text>It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.</Text>
    <Topic>Other</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Albert Einstein</Author>
    <Text>Make everything as simple as possible, but not
    simpler.</Text>
    <Topic>Other</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Albert Einstein</Author>
    <Text>There are only two ways to live your life. One is as
    though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything
    is a miracle.</Text>
    <Topic>Other</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Rush Limbaugh</Author>
    <Text>Poverty and Suffering are not due to unequal distribution
    of goods and resources, but to the unequal distribution of
    capitalism</Text>
    <Topic>Economics</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ronald Reagan</Author>
    <Text>No arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is
    so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and
    women</Text>
    <Topic>Politics/Government</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Voltaire</Author>
    <Text>I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the
    death your right to say it</Text>
    <Topic>Philosophy</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence</Author>
    <Text>Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of
    religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or
    abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right
    of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the
    Government for a redress of grievances. ...And among these
    rights are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness</Text>
    <Topic>Politics/Government</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>When I say capitalism, I mean a full, pure, uncontrolled,
    unregulated laissez faire capitalism, with a separation of
    state and economics, in the same way and for the same reasons
    as the separation of state and church.</Text>
    <Topic>Economics</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of
    Independence</Author>
    <Text>We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes,
    and our sacred honor.</Text>
    <Topic>Politics/Government</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>P.J. O'Rourke</Author>
    <Text>This country was founded by religious nuts with
    guns.</Text>
    <Topic>Politics/Government</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Benjamin Franklin</Author>
    <Text>They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a
    little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor
    safety.</Text>
    <Topic>Politics/Government</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ronald Reagan</Author>
    <Text>Government is not the solution to the problem. Government
    is the problem</Text>
    <Topic>Politics/Government</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Pope John Paul II</Author>
    <Text>Where self-interest is suppressed, it is replaced by a
    burdensome system of bureaucratic control that dries up the
    wellsprings of initiative and creativity.</Text>
    <Topic>Economics</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Al Gore (Looking at busts of the founding fathers while
    visiting Monticello)</Author>
    <Text>Who are all these guys?</Text>
    <Topic>Other</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Adam Smith</Author>
    <Text>Every man, as long as he does not violate the laws of
    justice, is left perfectly free to pursue his own interest his
    own way, and to bring both his industry and capital into
    competition with those of any other man or order of men</Text>
    <Topic>Economics</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>George Washington</Author>
    <Text>Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those
    few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True
    friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and
    withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the
    appellation.</Text>
    <Topic>Other</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ludwig Von Mises</Author>
    <Text>All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal
    to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to
    it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns
    out.</Text>
    <Topic>Economics</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ludwig Von Mises</Author>
    <Text>The meaning of economic freedom is this: that the
    individual is in a position to choose the way in which he wants
    to integrate himself into the totality of society.</Text>
    <Topic>Economics</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ludwig Von Mises</Author>
    <Text>The first condition for the establishment of perpetual
    peace is the general adoption of the principles of
    laissez-faire capitalism.</Text>
    <Topic>Economics</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Winston Churchill</Author>
    <Text>Some see private enterprise as a predatory target to be
    shot, others as a cow to be milked, but few are those who see
    it as a sturdy horse pulling the wagon.</Text>
    <Topic>Economics</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Milton Friedman</Author>
    <Text>Underlying most arguments against the free market is a
    lack of belief in freedom itself.</Text>
    <Topic>Economics</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ludwig Von Mises</Author>
    <Text>Economics is a theoretical science and as such abstains
    from any judgement of value. It is not its task to tell people
    what ends they should aim at. It is a science of the means to
    be applied for attainment of ends chosen, not, to be sure, a
    science of the choosing of ends. Ultimate decisions, the
    valuations and the choosing of ends, are beyond the scope of
    any science. Science never tells a man how he should act; it
    merely shows how a man must act if he wants to attain definite
    ends.</Text>
    <Topic>Economics</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ludwig Von Mises</Author>
    <Text>As the science of economics...exploded the fallacies of
    every brand of utopianism, it was outlawed and stigmatized as
    unscientific.</Text>
    <Topic>Economics</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Milton Friedman</Author>
    <Text>If an exchange between two parties is voluntary, it will
    not take place unless both believe they will benefit from it.
    Most economic fallacies derive from the neglect of this simple
    insight, from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie,
    that one party can gain only at the expense of another.</Text>
    <Topic>Economics</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Albert Jay Nock</Author>
    <Text>There are two methods, or means, and only two, whereby
    man's needs and desires can be satisfied. One is the production
    and exchange of wealth; this is the economic means. The other
    is the uncompensated appropriation of wealth produced by
    others; this is the political means.</Text>
    <Topic>Economics</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by
    offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value;
    political power is exercised by means of a negative, by the
    threat of punishment, injury, imprisonment, destruction. The
    businessman's tool is values; the bureaucrat's tool is
    fear.</Text>
    <Topic>Economics</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>George Reisman</Author>
    <Text>Whoever claims that economic competition represents
    'survival of the fittest' in the sense of the law of the
    jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence of his lack of
    knowledge of economics.</Text>
    <Topic>Economics</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Thomas Sowell</Author>
    <Text>The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never
    enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first
    lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of
    economics.</Text>
    <Topic>Economics</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Brian S. Wesbury</Author>
    <Text>Bad monetary and fiscal policy, often designed by the
    IMF, is the real cause of global problems. The only explanation
    for why government leaders continue to follow these policies is
    that by blaming markets, they avoid blaming themselves.</Text>
    <Topic>Economics</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ludwig Von Mises</Author>
    <Text>The essential characteristic of Western civilization that
    distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations
    of the East was and is its concern for freedom from the state.
    The history of the West, from the age of the Greek polis down
    to the present-day resistance to socialism, is essentially the
    history of the fight for liberty against the encroachments of
    the officeholders.</Text>
    <Topic>Politics/Government</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Edward Abbey</Author>
    <Text>A patriot must always be ready to defend his country
    against his government.</Text>
    <Topic>Politics/Government</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Frederic Bastiat</Author>
    <Text>The state is the great fiction by which everybody tries
    to live at the expense of everybody else.</Text>
    <Topic>Politics/Government</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>William H. Borah</Author>
    <Text>The marvel of all history is the patience with which men
    and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by
    their governments.</Text>
    <Topic>Politics/Government</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Emile Capouya</Author>
    <Text>Governments will always misuse the machinery of the law
    as far as the state of public opinion permits.</Text>
    <Topic>Politics/Government</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Thomas Jefferson</Author>
    <Text>The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts
    only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for
    my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither
    picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.</Text>
    <Topic>Politics/Government</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Thomas Jefferson</Author>
    <Text>It is error alone which needs the support of government.
    Truth can stand by itself.</Text>
    <Topic>Politics/Government</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Thomas Jefferson</Author>
    <Text>It should be remembered as an axiom of eternal truth in
    politics, that whatever power in any government is independent,
    is absolute also; in theory only at first while the spirit of
    the people is up, but in practice as fast as that
    relaxes.</Text>
    <Topic>Politics/Government</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>P.J. O'Rourke</Author>
    <Text>A little government and a little luck are necessary in
    life; but only a fool trusts either of them.</Text>
    <Topic>Politics/Government</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>It makes no difference whether government controls
    allegedly favor the interests of labor or business, of the poor
    or the rich, of a special class or a special race: the results
    are the same. The notion that a dictatorship can benefit any
    one social group at the expense of others is a worn remnant of
    the Marxist mythology of class warfare, refuted by half a
    century of factual evidence. All men are victims and losers
    under a dictatorship; nobody wins-except the ruling
    clique.</Text>
    <Topic>Politics/Government</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>James Fenimore Cooper</Author>
    <Text>In America, it is indispensable that every well wisher of
    true liberty should understand that acts of tyranny can only
    proceed from the public. The public, then, is to be watched, in
    this country, as, in other countries kings and aristocrats are
    to be watched.</Text>
    <Topic>Politics/Government</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Robert Heinlein</Author>
    <Text>The human race divides politically into those who want
    people to be controlled and those who have no such
    desire.</Text>
    <Topic>Politics/Government</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Robert Heinlein</Author>
    <Text>There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for
    what he does not want merely because you think it would be good
    for him.</Text>
    <Topic>Politics/Government</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Thomas Jefferson</Author>
    <Text>The strongest reason for the people to retain the right
    to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect
    themselves against tyranny in government.</Text>
    <Topic>Politics/Government</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Walter Williams</Author>
    <Text>The framers gave us the Second Amendment not so we could
    go deer or duck hunting but to give us a modicum of protection
    against congressional tyranny.</Text>
    <Topic>Politics/Government</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>William Pitt</Author>
    <Text>Necessity is the plea of every infringement of human
    freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of
    slaves.</Text>
    <Topic>Politics/Government</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>There are four characteristics which brand a country
    unmistakably as a dictatorship: one-party rule- executions
    without trial or with a mock trial, for political offenses- the
    nationalization or expropriation of private property- and
    censorship. A country guilty of these outrages forfeits any
    moral prerogatives, any claim to national rights or
    sovereignty, and becomes an outlaw.</Text>
    <Topic>Politics/Government</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>William Shakespeare</Author>
    <Text>O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength! 
But it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.</Text>
    <Topic>Other</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Jeff Burroughs</Author>
    <Text>Science has done more for the development of western
    civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in
    eighteen hundred years.</Text>
    <Topic>Politics/Government</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand, Textbook of Americanism</Author>
    <Text>Do not make the mistake...of thinking that a worker is a
    slave and that he holds his job by his employer's permission.
    He does not hold it by permission - but by contract, that is,
    by a voluntary mutual agreement. A worker can quit his job; a
    slave cannot.</Text>
    <Topic>Politics/Government</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>The only proper purpose of a government is to protect
    man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical
    violence... The only proper functions of a government are: the
    police, to protect you from criminals; the army, to protect you
    from foreign invaders; and the courts, to protect your property
    and contracts from breach or fraud by others, and to settle
    disputes by rational rules, according to objective law.</Text>
    <Topic>Politics/Government</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Frederic Bastiat</Author>
    <Text>If you wish to prosper, let your customer prosper. When
    people have learned this lesson, everyone will seek his
    individual welfare in the general welfare. Then jealousies
    between man and man, city and city, province and province,
    nation and nation, will no longer trouble the world.</Text>
    <Topic>Economics</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Albert Jay Nock</Author>
    <Text>There are two methods, or means, and only two, whereby
    man's needs and desires can be satisfied. One is the production
    and exchange of wealth; this is the economic means. The other
    is the uncompensated appropriation of wealth produced by
    others; this is the political means.</Text>
    <Topic>Economics</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>An inventor is a man who asks 'Why?' of the universe and
    lets nothing stand between the answer and his mind.</Text>
    <Topic>Reason</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where the gun
    begins.</Text>
    <Topic>Reason</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lot of
    an empty mind.</Text>
    <Topic>Reason</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>To fear to face an issue is to believe the worst is
    true.</Text>
    <Topic>Reason</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in
    one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate
    one's mind and to evict oneself from the realm of
    reality.</Text>
    <Topic>Reason</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>There are only two means by which men can deal with one
    another: guns or logic. Force or persuasion. Those who know
    that they cannot win by means of logic, have always resorted to
    guns.</Text>
    <Topic>Reason</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it
    without contradiction into the sum of his knowledge.</Text>
    <Topic>Reason</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your
    livelihood is the verdict you pronounce upon your life.</Text>
    <Topic>Reason</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>When personal judgement is inoperative (or forbidden),
    men's first concern is not how to choose, but how to justify
    their choice.</Text>
    <Topic>Reason</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>Aristotle may be regarded as the cultural barometer of
    Western history. Whenever his influence dominated the scene, it
    paved the way for one of history's brilliant eras; whenever it
    fell, so did mankind.</Text>
    <Topic>Reason</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>The action required to sustain human life is primarily
    intellectual: everything man needs has to be discovered by his
    mind and produced by his effort.</Text>
    <Topic>Reason</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>Man cannot survive except by gaining knowledge, and
    reason is his only means to gain it. Reason is the faculty that
    perceives, identifies and integrates the material provided by
    his senses. The task of his senses is to give him the evidence
    of existence, but the task of identifying it belongs to his
    reason, his senses tell him only that something is, but what it
    is must be learned by his mind.</Text>
    <Topic>Reason</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>The only purpose of education is to teach a student how
    to live his life-by developing his mind and equipping him to
    deal with reality. The training he needs is theoretical, i.e.,
    conceptual. He has to be taught to think, to understand, to
    integrate, to prove. He has to be taught the essentials of the
    knowledge discovered in the past-and he has to be equipped to
    acquire further knowledge by his own effort.</Text>
    <Topic>Reason</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>To know one's own desires, their meaning and their costs
    requires the highest human virtue: rationality.</Text>
    <Topic>Reason</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first
    line of defense against the chaos of mental
    disintegration.</Text>
    <Topic>Reason</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>One can not be a traitor to anything, except to
    oneself.</Text>
    <Topic>Reason</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as
    actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a
    mob.</Text>
    <Topic>Reason</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>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.</Text>
    <Topic>Reason</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>Volumes can be and have been written about the issue of
    freedom versus dictatorship, but, in essence, it comes down to
    a single question: do you consider it moral to treat men as
    sacrificial animals and to rule them by physical force?</Text>
    <Topic>Reason</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>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).</Text>
    <Topic>Reason</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>The moral cannibalism of all hedonist and altruist
    doctrines lies in the premise that the happiness of one man
    necessitates the injury of another.</Text>
    <Topic>Reason</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>The right to agree with others is not a problem in any
    society; it is the right to disagree that is crucial. It is the
    institution of private property that protects and implements
    the right to disagree...</Text>
    <Topic>Reason</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those
    who deny individual rights, cannot claim to be defenders of
    minorities.</Text>
    <Topic>Reason</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the
    conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.</Text>
    <Topic>Reason</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>Individual rights are the means of subordinating society
    to moral law.</Text>
    <Topic>Reason</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him,
    save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his
    brothers.</Text>
    <Topic>Reason</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power
    government has is the power to crack down on criminals. 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.</Text>
    <Topic>Politics/Government</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>There can be no such thing as a political crime under the
    American system of law. Since an individual has the right to
    hold and to propagate any ideas he chooses (obviously including
    political ideas), the government may not infringe his right; it
    may neither penalize nor reward him for his ideas; it may not
    take any judicial cognizance whatever of his ideology. By the
    same principle, the government may not give special leniency to
    the perpetrator of a crime, on the grounds of the nature of his
    ideas.</Text>
    <Topic>Politics/Government</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>There are four characteristics which brand a country
    unmistakably as a dictatorship: one-party rule- executions
    without trial or with a mock trial, for political offenses- the
    nationalization or expropriation of private property- and
    censorship. A country guilty of these outrages forfeits any
    moral prerogatives, any claim to national rights or
    sovereignty, and becomes an outlaw.</Text>
    <Topic>Politics/Government</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>The right of a nation to determine its own form of
    government does not include the right to establish a slave
    society (that is, to legalize the enslavement of some men by
    others). There is no such thing as the right to enslave. A
    nation can do it, just as a man can become a criminal- but
    neither can do it by right.</Text>
    <Topic>Politics/Government</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>Every movement that seeks to enslave a country, every
    dictatorship or potential dictatorship, needs some minority
    group as a scapegoat which it can blame for the nation's
    troubles and use as a justification of its own demands for
    dictatorial powers. In Soviet Russia, the scapegoat was the
    bourgeoisie; in Nazi Germany, it was the Jewish people; in
    America, it is the businessmen.</Text>
    <Topic>Politics/Government</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>Today, when a concerted effort is made to obliterate this
    point, it cannot be repeated too often that the Constitution is
    a limitation on the government, not on private individuals-
    that it does not prescribe the conduct of private individuals,
    only the conduct of the government- that it is not a charter
    for government power, but a charter of the citizen's protection
    against the government.</Text>
    <Topic>Politics/Government</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>A crime is the violation of the right(s) of other men by
    force (or fraud). It is only the initiation of physical force
    against others- i.e., the recourse to violence- that can be
    classified as a crime in a free society (as distinguished from
    a civil wrong). Ideas, in a free society, are not a crime- and
    neither can they serve as the justification of a crime.</Text>
    <Topic>Politics/Government</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>may the God you invented forgive you!</Text>
    <Topic>Politics/Government</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>Politics is based on three other philosophical
    disciplines: metaphysics, epistemology and ethics- on a theory
    of man's nature and of man's relationship to existence. It is
    only on such a base that one can formulate a consistent
    political theory and achieve it in practice. When, however, men
    attempt to rush into politics without such a base, the result
    is that embarrassing conglomeration of impotence, futility,
    inconsistency and superficiality which is loosely designated
    today as conservatism.</Text>
    <Topic>Politics/Government</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>To rest one's case on faith means to concede that reason
    is on the side of one's enemies- that one has no rational
    arguments to offer.</Text>
    <Topic>Politics/Government</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>Loyalty is like rubber: one can stretch it so far and
    then - it snaps.</Text>
    <Topic>Politics/Government</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer
    and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.</Text>
    <Topic>Politics/Government</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>There is no escape from the fact that men have to make
    choices; so long as men have to make choices, there is no
    escape from moral values; so long as moral values are at stake,
    no moral neutrality is possible. To abstain from condemning a
    torturer, is to become an accessory to the torture and murder
    of his victims.</Text>
    <Topic>Politics/Government</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>The moral precept to adopt...is: Judge, and be prepared
    to be judged.</Text>
    <Topic>Politics/Government</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>A leash is only a rope with a noose on both ends.</Text>
    <Topic>Politics/Government</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>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.</Text>
    <Topic>Politics/Government</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>In any compromise between food and poison, it is only
    death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it
    is only evil that can profit.</Text>
    <Topic>Politics/Government</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Herm Albright</Author>
    <Text>A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but
    it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.</Text>
    <Topic>Other</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Woody Allen</Author>
    <Text>The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the
    calf won't get much sleep.</Text>
    <Topic>Other</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Napoleon Bonaparte</Author>
    <Text>Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand
    who are silent.</Text>
    <Topic>Other</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Jenine Bucker</Author>
    <Text>If you keep doing what you've always done, you will keep
    getting what you've always gotten.</Text>
    <Topic>Other</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Lord Byron</Author>
    <Text>Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot,
    are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.</Text>
    <Topic>Other</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Chinese proverb</Author>
    <Text>Before you start on the road of revenge, dig two
    graves.</Text>
    <Topic>Other</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Sir Winston Churchill</Author>
    <Text>Men occasionally stumble on the truth, but most of them
    pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had
    happened.</Text>
    <Topic>Other</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Tom Clancey</Author>
    <Text>Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change
    around you, but your dream will not. Your life may change, but
    your dream doesn?t have to. Responsibilities need not erase it.
    Duties need not obscure it. Your family and friends need not
    get in its way, because the dream is within you. No one can
    take it away.</Text>
    <Topic>Other</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Arthur C. Clarke</Author>
    <Text>Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable
    from magic.</Text>
    <Topic>Other</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Frederick Douglas</Author>
    <Text>If there is not struggle there is no progress. Those who
    profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men
    who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain
    without thunder and lightening. They want the ocean without the
    roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one, or
    it may be a physical one, or it may be both moral and physical
    - but it must be a struggle.</Text>
    <Topic>Other</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Albert Einstein</Author>
    <Text>You cannot solve current problems with current thinking.
    Current problems are the result of current thinking.</Text>
    <Topic>Other</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Dwight D. Eisenhower</Author>
    <Text>A people that values its privileges above its principles
    soon loses both.</Text>
    <Topic>Other</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ralph Waldo Emerson</Author>
    <Text>Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut
    diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known.
    Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a
    useful life.</Text>
    <Topic>Other</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ralph Waldo Emerson</Author>
    <Text>What lies behind us and lies before us are small matters
    compared to what lies within us.</Text>
    <Topic>Other</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Henry Ford</Author>
    <Text>Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably
    the reason so few engage in it.</Text>
    <Topic>Other</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Henry Ford</Author>
    <Text>I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite
    capacity to not know what can't be done.</Text>
    <Topic>Other</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Benjamin Franklin</Author>
    <Text>They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a
    little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor
    safety.</Text>
    <Topic>Other</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Robert Frost</Author>
    <Text>A liberal is man too broad-minded to take his own side in
    a quarrel.</Text>
    <Topic>Other</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Robert Frost</Author>
    <Text>We all sit around in a ring and suppose, while the secret
    sits in the center and knows.</Text>
    <Topic>Other</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andrâ€š Gide</Author>
    <Text>One does not discover new lands without consenting to
    lose sight of the shore for a very long time.</Text>
    <Topic>Other</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Wayne Gretsky</Author>
    <Text>You miss 100% of the shots you never take.</Text>
    <Topic>Other</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Alexander Hamilton</Author>
    <Text>Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have
    lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it
    profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes
    pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what
    people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit
    of labor and thought.</Text>
    <Topic>Other</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Vance Havner</Author>
    <Text>The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not
    enough to stare up the steps -- We must step up the stairs.
    -</Text>
    <Topic>Other</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Alfred Hitchcock</Author>
    <Text>We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time
    capsules in order to give those people living in the next
    century or so some idea of what we are like. I have prepared
    one of my own. I have placed some rather large samples of
    dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is set
    to go off in the year 3000. It will show them what we are
    really like.</Text>
    <Topic>Other</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Eric Hoffer</Author>
    <Text>In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the
    learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a
    world that no longer exists.</Text>
    <Topic>Other</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Eric Hoffer</Author>
    <Text>When people are free to do as they please, they usually
    imitate each other.</Text>
    <Topic>Other</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Eric Hoffer</Author>
    <Text>You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing
    the means he uses to frighten you.</Text>
    <Topic>Other</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Oliver Wendell Holmes</Author>
    <Text>Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains
    its original dimension.</Text>
    <Topic>Other</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>John Holt</Author>
    <Text>The true test of intelligence is not how much we know how
    to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do.</Text>
    <Topic>Other</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Victor Hugo</Author>
    <Text>There is one thing stronger than all the armies of the
    world, and that is an idea whose time has come.</Text>
    <Topic>Other</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Aldous Huxley</Author>
    <Text>Facts do not cease to exist because they are
    ignored.</Text>
    <Topic>Other</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andrew Jackson</Author>
    <Text>One man with courage makes a majority.</Text>
    <Topic>Other</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Erica Jong</Author>
    <Text>Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
    but wish we didn't.</Text>
    <Topic>Other</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Helen Keller</Author>
    <Text>Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is
    mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.</Text>
    <Topic>Other</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Martin L. King, Jr</Author>
    <Text>Rarely do we find men who willingly to engage in hard,
    solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy
    answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people
    more than having to think.</Text>
    <Topic>Other</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>La Rochefourauld</Author>
    <Text>We promise according to our hopes, and perform according
    to our fears.</Text>
    <Topic>Other</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Kurt Lewin</Author>
    <Text>If you want to truly understand something, try to change
    it.</Text>
    <Topic>Other</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Henry Miller</Author>
    <Text>Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which
    is not yet understood.</Text>
    <Topic>Other</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Christopher Morley</Author>
    <Text>There is no squabbling so violent as between people who
    accept an idea yesterday, and those who will accept the same
    idea tomorrow.</Text>
    <Topic>Other</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>P. J. O'Rourke</Author>
    <Text>Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy
    cows with a high powered rifle and scope.</Text>
    <Topic>Other</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>P. J. O'Rourke</Author>
    <Text>Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental
    ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our
    troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test
    them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.</Text>
    <Topic>Other</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Patrick Overton</Author>
    <Text>Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words;
    they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits.
    Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character;
    it becomes your destiny.</Text>
    <Topic>Other</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>General George S. Patton</Author>
    <Text>Success is how high you bounce when you hit
    bottom.</Text>
    <Topic>Other</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>General George S. Patton</Author>
    <Text>Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.</Text>
    <Topic>Other</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Will Rogers</Author>
    <Text>Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if
    you just sit there.</Text>
    <Topic>Other</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Will Rogers</Author>
    <Text>Diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggy' until you can
    find a rock.</Text>
    <Topic>Other</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Theodore Roosevelt</Author>
    <Text>It is not the critic who counts, nor the person who
    points out how the strong person stumbled or where the doer of
    deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the person
    who is actually in the arena; whose face is actually marred by
    dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and
    comes short again and again, who knows great enthusiasm and
    great devotions, whose life is spent in a worthy cause; who, at
    best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and at
    worst, if failure wins out, it at least wins with greatness, so
    that this person's place shall never be with those timid souls
    who know neither victory nor defeat.</Text>
    <Topic>Other</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Bertrand Russell</Author>
    <Text>Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth.
    Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and
    terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established
    institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift
    and free.</Text>
    <Topic>Other</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Carl Sagan</Author>
    <Text>In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You
    know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,'
    and then they would actually change their minds and you never
    hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It
    doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are
    human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every
    day. I cannot recall the last time someting like that happened
    in politics or religion.</Text>
    <Topic>Other</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>George Bernard Shaw</Author>
    <Text>People are always blaming circumstances for what they
    are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in
    this world are the people who get up and look for the
    circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make
    them.</Text>
    <Topic>Other</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Text>There is only one principle of war and that's this. Hit
    the other fellow, as quickly as you can, as hard as you can,
    where it hurts him most, when he ain't lookin'. - Sir William
    Slim</Text>
    <Topic>Other</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Philip Stanhope</Author>
    <Text>Many a man would rather you heard his story than granted
    his request.</Text>
    <Topic>Other</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>John Ernst Steinbeck</Author>
    <Text>This I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the
    individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And
    this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any
    direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against:
    any idea, religion or government which limits or destroys the
    individual. This is what I am and what I am about. I can
    understand why a system built on a pattern must must try to
    destroy the free mind, for this is one thing which can by
    inspection destroy such a system. Surely I can understand this,
    and I hate it and I will fight against it to preserve the one
    thing that separates us from the uncreative beasts.</Text>
    <Topic>Other</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>J. Michael Straczynski</Author>
    <Text>No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned
    population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power
    in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power,
    governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand. The Centauri
    learned this lesson once. We will teach it to them again.
    Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.</Text>
    <Topic>Other</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>J.R.R. Tolkien</Author>
    <Text>It does not do you good to leave a dragon out of your
    calculations, if you live near him.</Text>
    <Topic>Other</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Mark Twain</Author>
    <Text>Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in
    authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit
    more.</Text>
    <Topic>Other</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Mark Twain</Author>
    <Text>Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no
    influence on society.</Text>
    <Topic>Other</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Voltaire</Author>
    <Text>It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the
    established authorities are wrong.</Text>
    <Topic>Other</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Thomas J. Watson</Author>
    <Text>All the problems of the world could be settled easily if
    men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very
    often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think,
    because thinking is such hard work.</Text>
    <Topic>Reason</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>Man's character is the product of his premises.</Text>
    <Topic>Reason</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>Unjust laws have to be fought ideologically; they cannot
    be fought or corrected by means of mere disobedience and futile
    martyrdom.</Text>
    <Topic>Politics/Government</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by
    offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value;
    political power is exercised by means of a negative, by the
    threat of punishment, injury, imprisonment, destruction. The
    businessman's tool is values; the bureaucrat's tool is
    fear.</Text>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>To love is to value. Only a rationally selfish man, a man
    of self-esteem, is capable of love - because he is the only man
    capable of holding firm, consistent, uncompromising, unbetrayed
    values. The man who does not value himself, cannot value
    anything or anyone</Text>
    <Topic>Love/Romance/Sex</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>Tell me what a man finds sexually attractive and I will
    tell you his entire philosophy of life</Text>
    <Topic>Love/Romance/Sex</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this
    world to those who are its worst. In the name of the values
    that keep you alive, do not let your vision of man be distorted
    by the ugly, the cowardly, the mindless in those who have never
    achieved his title. Do not lose your knowledge that man's
    proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind and a
    step that travels unlimited roads. Do not let your fire go out,
    spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the
    approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not
    let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the
    life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check
    your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired
    can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it's
    yours.</Text>
    <Topic>Egoism</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>The basic need of the creator is independence. The
    reasoning mind cannot work under any form of compulsion. It
    cannot be curbed, sacrificed or subordinated to any
    consideration whatsoever. It demands total independence in
    function and in motive. To a creator, all relations with men
    are secondary.</Text>
    <Topic>Egoism</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>Men have been taught that the highest virtue is not to
    achieve, but to give. Yet one cannot give that which has not
    been created. Creation comes before distribution- or there will
    be nothing to distribute. The need of the creator comes before
    the need of any possible beneficiary. Yet we are taught to
    admire the second-hander who dispenses gifts he has not
    produced above the man who made the gifts possible. We praise
    an act of charity. We shrug at an act of achievement.</Text>
    <Topic>Egoism</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with
    others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been
    taught that it is a virtue to swim with the current. But the
    creator is the man who goes against the current. Men have been
    taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator
    is the man who stands alone.</Text>
    <Topic>Egoism</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Aesop</Author>
    <Text>Any excuse will serve a tyrant.</Text>
    <Topic>Politics/Government</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Edmund Burke</Author>
    <Text>The tyranny of the multitude is a multiplied
    tyranny.</Text>
    <Topic>Politics/Government</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Edmund Burke</Author>
    <Text>Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.</Text>
    <Topic>Politics/Government</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Emile Capouya</Author>
    <Text>Governments will always misuse the machinery of the law
    as far as the state of public opinion permits.</Text>
    <Topic>Politics/Government</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>James Fenimore Cooper</Author>
    <Text>In America, it is indispensable that every well wisher of
    true liberty should understand that acts of tyranny can only
    proceed from the public. The public, then, is to be watched, in
    this country, as, in other countries kings and aristocrats are
    to be watched.</Text>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Benjamin Disraeli</Author>
    <Text>It has been discovered that the best way to insure
    implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the
    nursery.</Text>
    <Topic>Politics/Government</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Robert Heinlein</Author>
    <Text>The human race divides politically into those who want
    people to be controlled and those who have no such
    desire.</Text>
    <Topic>Politics/Government</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Robert Heinlein</Author>
    <Text>Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny.</Text>
    <Topic>Politics/Government</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Robert Heinlein</Author>
    <Text>There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for
    what he does not want merely because you think it would be good
    for him.</Text>
    <Topic>Politics/Government</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Eric Hoffer</Author>
    <Text>Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane
    purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd
    of the people still demands from others the submissiveness of
    sheep.</Text>
    <Topic>Politics/Government</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Thomas Jefferson</Author>
    <Text>They [the clergy] believe that any portion of power
    confided to me, will be exerted in opposition of their schemes.
    And they believe rightly: for I have sworn upon the altar of
    god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the
    mind of man.</Text>
    <Topic>Other</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Thomas Jefferson</Author>
    <Text>Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and
    oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the
    dawn of day.</Text>
    <Topic>Other</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andrew Johnson</Author>
    <Text>Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more
    rigourously, more vigourously, and more severely, than by
    one.</Text>
    <Topic>Politics/Government</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Lord Lytton</Author>
    <Text>When the people have no tyrant, their own public opinion
    becomes one.</Text>
    <Topic>Politics/Government</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>H.L. Mencken</Author>
    <Text>The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his
    head. Put it in his hand and it's good-by to the Bill of
    Rights.</Text>
    <Topic>Politics/Government</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ludwig Von Mises</Author>
    <Text>It is not conclusive proof of a doctrine's correctness
    that its adversaries use the police, the hangman, and violent
    mobs to fight it. But it is a proof of the fact that those
    taking recourse to violent oppression are in their
    subconsciousness convinced of the untenability of their own
    doctrines.</Text>
    <Topic>Politics/Government</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ludwig Von Mises</Author>
    <Text>The main political problem is how to prevent the police
    power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the
    struggles for liberty.</Text>
    <Topic>Politics/Government</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>William Pitt</Author>
    <Text>Necessity is the plea of every infringement of human
    freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of
    slaves.</Text>
    <Topic>Politics/Government</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Plato</Author>
    <Text>A tyrant...is always stirring up some war or other, in
    order that the people may require a leader.</Text>
    <Topic>Politics/Government</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Walter Williams</Author>
    <Text>The framers gave us the Second Amendment not so we could
    go deer or duck hunting but to give us a modicum of protection
    against congressional tyranny. - Walter Williams</Text>
    <Topic>Politics/Government</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Leonard Peikoff</Author>
    <Text>To save the world is the simplest thing in the world. All
    one has to do is think.</Text>
    <Topic>Reason</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your
    livelihood is the verdict you pronounce upon your life.</Text>
    <Topic>Reason</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>When personal judgement is inoperative (or forbidden),
    men's first concern is not how to choose, but how to justify
    their choice.</Text>
    <Topic>Reason</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>Thinking men cannot be ruled.</Text>
    <Topic>Reason</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>Aristotle may be regarded as the cultural barometer of
    Western history. Whenever his influence dominated the scene, it
    paved the way for one of history's brilliant eras; whenever it
    fell, so did mankind.</Text>
    <Topic>Reason</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>The action required to sustain human life is primarily
    intellectual: everything man needs has to be discovered by his
    mind and produced by his effort.</Text>
    <Topic>Reason</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>Man cannot survive except by gaining knowledge, and
    reason is his only means to gain it. Reason is the faculty that
    perceives, identifies and integrates the material provided by
    his senses. The task of his senses is to give him the evidence
    of existence, but the task of identifying it belongs to his
    reason, his senses tell him only that something is, but what it
    is must be learned by his mind.</Text>
    <Topic>Reason</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>To know one's own desires, their meaning and their costs
    requires the highest human virtue: rationality.</Text>
    <Topic>Reason</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first
    line of defense against the chaos of mental
    disintegration.</Text>
    <Topic>Reason</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>One can not be a traitor to anything, except to
    oneself.</Text>
    <Topic>Individualism</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as
    actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a
    mob.</Text>
    <Topic>Individualism</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>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.</Text>
    <Topic>Individualism</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>Volumes can be and have been written about the issue of
    freedom versus dictatorship, but, in essence, it comes down to
    a single question: do you consider it moral to treat men as
    sacrificial animals and to rule them by physical force?</Text>
    <Topic>Individualism</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>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).</Text>
    <Topic>Individualism</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>The moral cannibalism of all hedonist and altruist
    doctrines lies in the premise that the happiness of one man
    necessitates the injury of another.</Text>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>The right to agree with others is not a problem in any
    society; it is the right to disagree that is crucial. It is the
    institution of private property that protects and implements
    the right to disagree...</Text>
    <Topic>Individualism</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those
    who deny individual rights, cannot claim to be defenders of
    minorities.</Text>
    <Topic>Individualism</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the
    conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.</Text>
    <Topic>Individualism</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>Individual rights are the means of subordinating society
    to moral law.</Text>
    <Topic>Individualism</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him,
    save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his
    brothers.</Text>
    <Topic>Individualism</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>It is a grave error to suppose that a dictatorship rules
    a nation by means of strict, rigid laws which are obeyed and
    enforced with rigorous, military precision. Such a rule would
    be evil, but almost bearable; men could endure the harshest
    edicts, provided these edicts were known, specific and stable;
    it is not the known that breaks men's spirits, but the
    unpredictable. A dictatorship has to be capricious; it has to
    rule by means of the unexpected, the incomprehensible, the
    wantonly irrational; it has to deal not in death, but in sudden
    death; a state of chronic uncertainty is what men are
    psychologically unable to bear.</Text>
    <Topic>Politics/Government</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power
    government has is the power to crack down on criminals. 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.</Text>
    <Topic>Politics/Government</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>There can be no such thing as a political crime under the
    American system of law. Since an individual has the right to
    hold and to propagate any ideas he chooses (obviously including
    political ideas), the government may not infringe his right; it
    may neither penalize nor reward him for his ideas; it may not
    take any judicial cognizance whatever of his ideology.By the
    same principle, the government may not give special leniency to
    the perpetrator of a crime, on the grounds of the nature of his
    ideas.</Text>
    <Topic>Politics/Government</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>The right of a nation to determine its own form of
    government does not include the right to establish a slave
    society (that is, to legalize the enslavement of some men by
    others). There is no such thing as the right to enslave. A
    nation can do it, just as a man can become a criminal- but
    neither can do it by right.</Text>
    <Topic>Politics/Government</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>Every movement that seeks to enslave a country, every
    dictatorship or potential dictatorship, needs some minority
    group as a scapegoat which it can blame for the nation's
    troubles and use as a justification of its own demands for
    dictatorial powers. In Soviet Russia, the scapegoat was the
    bourgeoisie; in Nazi Germany, it was the Jewish people; in
    America, it is the businessmen.</Text>
    <Topic>Politics/Government</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>A crime is the violation of the right(s) of other men by
    force (or fraud). It is only the initiation of physical force
    against others- i.e., the recourse to violence- that can be
    classified as a crime in a free society (as distinguished from
    a civil wrong). Ideas, in a free society, are not a crime- and
    neither can they serve as the justification of a crime.</Text>
    <Topic>Politics/Government</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>Do you believe in God, Andrei?No.Neither do I. But that's
    a favorite question of mine. An upside-down question, you
    know.What do you mean?Well, if I asked people whether they
    believed in life, they'd never understand what I meant. It's a
    bad question. It can mean so much that it really means nothing.
    So I ask them if they believe in God. And if they say they
    do--then, I know they don't believe in life.Why?Because, you
    see, God--whatever anyone chooses to call God--is one's highest
    conception of the highest possible. And whoever places his
    highest conception above his own possibility thinks very little
    of himself and his life. It's a rare gift, you know, to feel
    reverence for your own life and to want the best, the greatest,
    the highest possible, here, now, for your very own.</Text>
    <Topic>Religion/Philosophy</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>may the God you invented forgive you!</Text>
    <Topic>Religion/Philosophy</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>The Middle Ages were an era of mysticism, ruled by blind
    faith and blind obedience to the dogma that faith is superior
    to reason. The Renaissance was specifically the rebirth of
    reason, the liberation of man's mind, the triumph of
    rationality over mysticism - a faltering, incomplete, but
    impassioned triumph that led to the birth of science, of
    individualism, of freedom.</Text>
    <Topic>Religion/Philosophy</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>Politics is based on three other philosophical
    disciplines: metaphysics, epistemology and ethics- on a theory
    of man's nature and of man's relationship to existence. It is
    only on such a base that one can formulate a consistent
    political theory and achieve it in practice. When, however, men
    attempt to rush into politics without such a base, the result
    is that embarrassing conglomeration of impotence, futility,
    inconsistency and superficiality which is loosely designated
    today as conservatism.</Text>
    <Topic>Religion/Philosophy</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>To rest one's case on faith means to concede that reason
    is on the side of one's enemies- that one has no rational
    arguments to offer.</Text>
    <Topic>Religion/Philosophy</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>Loyalty is like rubber: one can stretch it so far and
    then - it snaps.</Text>
    <Topic>Ethics/Morality</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer
    and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.</Text>
    <Topic>Ethics/Morality</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>The precept: Judge not, that ye be not judged ... is an
    abdication of moral responsibility: it is a moral blank check
    one gives to others in exchange for a moral blank check one
    expects for oneself.</Text>
    <Topic>Ethics/Morality</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>There is no escape from the fact that men have to make
    choices; so long as men have to make choices, there is no
    escape from moral values; so long as moral values are at stake,
    no moral neutrality is possible. To abstain from condemning a
    torturer, is to become an accessory to the torture and murder
    of his victims.</Text>
    <Topic>Ethics/Morality</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>The moral precept to adopt...is: Judge, and be prepared
    to be judged.</Text>
    <Topic>Ethics/Morality</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>A leash is only a rope with a noose on both ends.</Text>
    <Topic>Ethics/Morality</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>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.</Text>
    <Topic>Ethics/Morality</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>In any compromise between food and poison, it is only
    death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it
    is only evil that can profit.</Text>
    <Topic>Ethics/Morality</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>Unjust laws have to be fought ideologically; they cannot
    be fought or corrected by means of mere disobedience and futile
    martyrdom.</Text>
    <Topic>Ethics/Morality</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>I have come here to say that I do not recognize anyone's
    right to one minute of my life....It had to be said. The world
    is perishishing from an orgy of self-sacrificing.</Text>
    <Topic>Ethics/Morality</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>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 wlth 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?</Text>
    <Topic>Capitalism</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of
    Americans, I would choose- because it contains all the others-
    the fact that they were the people who created the phrase to
    make money. No other language or nation had ever used these
    words before; men had always thought of wealth as a static
    quantity- to be seized, begged, inherited, shared, looted or
    obtained as a favor. Americans were the first to understand
    that wealth has to be created.</Text>
    <Topic>Capitalism</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>Every coercive monopoly was created by government
    intervention into the economy: by special privileges, such as
    franchises or subsidies, which closed the entry of competitors
    into a given field, by legislative action.</Text>
    <Topic>Capitalism</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by
    offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value;
    political power is exercised by means of a negative, by the
    threat of punishment, injury, imprisonment, destruction. The
    businessman's tool is values; the bureaucrat's tool is
    fear.</Text>
    <Topic>Capitalism</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>To love is to value. Only a rationally selfish man, a man
    of self-esteem, is capable of love - because he is the only man
    capable of holding firm, consistent, uncompromising, unbetrayed
    values. The man who does not value himself, cannot value
    anything or anyone</Text>
    <Topic>Love/Romance/Sex</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>Tell me what a man finds sexually attractive and I will
    tell you his entire philosophy of life</Text>
    <Topic>Love/Romance/Sex</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this
    world to those who are its worst. In the name of the values
    that keep you alive, do not let your vision of man be distorted
    by the ugly, the cowardly, the mindless in those who have never
    achieved his title. Do not lose your knowledge that man's
    proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind and a
    step that travels unlimited roads. Do not let your fire go out,
    spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the
    approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not
    let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the
    life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check
    your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired
    can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it's
    yours.</Text>
    <Topic>Egoism</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>The basic need of the creator is independence. The
    reasoning mind cannot work under any form of compulsion. It
    cannot be curbed, sacrificed or subordinated to any
    consideration whatsoever. It demands total independence in
    function and in motive. To a creator, all relations with men
    are secondary.</Text>
    <Topic>Egoism</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>Men have been taught that the highest virtue is not to
    achieve, but to give. Yet one cannot give that which has not
    been created. Creation comes before distribution- or there will
    be nothing to distribute. The need of the creator comes before
    the need of any possible beneficiary. Yet we are taught to
    admire the second-hander who dispenses gifts he has not
    produced above the man who made the gifts possible. We praise
    an act of charity. We shrug at an act of achievement.</Text>
    <Topic>Egoism</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with
    others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been
    taught that it is a virtue to swim with the current. But the
    creator is the man who goes against the current. Men have been
    taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator
    is the man who stands alone.</Text>
    <Topic>Egoism</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand (Atlas Shrugged)</Author>
    <Text>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.</Text>
    <Topic>Egoism</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Galileo Galilei</Author>
    <Text>I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who
    has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended
    us to forgo their use.</Text>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Thomas Jefferson</Author>
    <Text>It is error alone which needs the support of government.
    Truth can stand by itself.</Text>
    <Topic>Politics/Government</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>The precept: Judge not, that ye be not judged ... is an
    abdication of moral responsibility: it is a moral blank check
    one gives to others in exchange for a moral blank check one
    expects for oneself.</Text>
    <Topic>Ethics/Morality</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>There is no escape from the fact that men have to make
    choices; so long as men have to make choices, there is no
    escape from moral values; so long as moral values are at stake,
    no moral neutrality is possible. To abstain from condemning a
    torturer, is to become an accessory to the torture and murder
    of his victims.</Text>
    <Topic>Ethics/Morality</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>The moral precept to adopt...is: Judge, and be prepared
    to be judged.</Text>
    <Topic>Ethics/Morality</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Martin Niemoller</Author>
    <Text>When Hitler attacked the Jews I was not a Jew, therefore,
    I was not concerned. And when Hitler attacked the Catholics, I
    was not a Catholic, and therefore, I was not concerned. And
    when Hitler attacked the unions and the industrialists, I was
    not a member of the unions and I was not concerned. Then,
    Hitler attacked me and the Protestant church - and there was
    nobody left to be concerned.</Text>
    <Topic>Politics/Government</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Thomas Jefferson</Author>
    <Text>I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to
    have.</Text>
    <Topic>Other</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand, (We the Living)</Author>
    <Text>Do you believe in God, Andrei? No. Neither do I. But
    that's a favorite question of mine. An upside-down question,
    you know. What do you mean? Well, if I asked people whether
    they believed in life, they'd never understand what I meant.
    It's a bad question. It can mean so much that it really means
    nothing. So I ask them if they believe in God. And if they say
    they do--then, I know they don't believe in life. Why? Because,
    you see, God--whatever anyone chooses to call God--is one's
    highest conception of the highest possible. And whoever places
    his highest conception above his own possibility thinks very
    little of himself and his life. It's a rare gift, you know, to
    feel reverence for your own life and to want the best, the
    greatest, the highest possible, here, now, for your very
    own.</Text>
    <Topic>Ethics/Morality</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Benjamin Franklin</Author>
    <Text>Half the truth is sometimes the greater lie.</Text>
    <Topic>Other</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Santa Ana</Author>
    <Text>Those who forget the lessons of history, are doomed to
    repeat them.</Text>
    <Topic>Other</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand, (Atlas Shrugged)</Author>
    <Text>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 wlth 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?</Text>
    <Topic>Economics</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>All the reasons which made the initiation of physical
    force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral
    imperative.</Text>
    <Topic>Ethics/Morality</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Dr. Leonard Peikoff</Author>
    <Text>To those who oppose war, I ask: If not now, when? How
    many more corpses are necessary before this country should take
    action?</Text>
    <Topic>Politics/Government</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Donald Rumsfeld</Author>
    <Text>...no weapon in any arsenal is as formidable as the will
    and the moral courage of free men and free women.</Text>
    <Topic>Politics/Government</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Silvio Berlusconi, Italian Prime Minister</Author>
    <Text>We should be conscious of the superiority of our
    civilization, which consists of a value system that has given
    people widespread prosperity in those countries that embrace
    it, and guarantees respect for human rights and
    religion.</Text>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ariel Sharon, Prime Minister of Israel</Author>
    <Text>We are currently in the midst of a complex and difficult
    political campaign. I call on the Western democracies and
    primarily on the leader of the free world, the United States:
    Do not repeat the dreadful mistake of 1938, when enlightened
    European democracies decided to sacrifice Czechoslovakia for a
    convenient temporary solution. Do not try to appease the Arabs
    at our expense. This is unacceptable to us. Israel will not be
    Czechoslovakia. Israel will fight terrorism.</Text>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Dante Alighieri (from the Divine Comedy)</Author>
    <Text>The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who
    remain neutral in time of great moral crisis.</Text>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as
    actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a
    mob.</Text>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>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.</Text>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>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).</Text>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>The moral cannibalism of all hedonist and altruist
    doctrines lies in the premise that the happiness of one man
    necessitates the injury of another.</Text>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where the gun
    begins.</Text>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lot of
    an empty mind.</Text>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>The right to agree with others is not a problem in any
    society; it is the right to disagree that is crucial. It is the
    institution of private property that protects and implements
    the right to disagree...</Text>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>To fear to face an issue is to believe the worst is
    true.</Text>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those
    who deny individual rights, cannot claim to be defenders of
    minorities.</Text>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power
    government has is the power to crack down on criminals. 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.</Text>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices
    to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men
    who pursued their own personal interests and the making of
    their own private fortunes. They did not starve the people to
    pay for America's industrialization. They gave the people
    better jobs, higher wages, and cheaper goods with every new
    machine they invented, with every scientific discovery or
    technological advance- and thus the whole country was moving
    forward and profiting, not suffering, every step of the
    way.</Text>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>Tell me what a man finds sexually attractive and I will
    tell you his entire philosophy of life</Text>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the
    conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.</Text>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>Individual rights are the means of subordinating society
    to moral law.</Text>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>Man's character is the product of his premises.</Text>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your
    livelihood is the verdict you pronounce upon your life.</Text>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal
    with nature by persuasion.</Text>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>Ask yourself why totalitarian dictatorships find it
    necessary to pour money and effort into propaganda for their
    own helpless, chained, gagged slaves, who have no means of
    protest or defense. The answer is that even the humblest
    peasant or the lowest savage would rise in blind rebellion,
    were he to realize that he is being immolated, not to some
    incomprehensible noble purpose, but to plain, naked human
    evil.</Text>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>Aristotle may be regarded as the cultural barometer of
    Western history. Whenever his influence dominated the scene, it
    paved the way for one of history's brilliant eras; whenever it
    fell, so did mankind.</Text>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>Businessmen are the one group that distinguishes
    capitalism and the American way of life from the totalitarian
    statism that is swallowing the rest of the world. All the other
    social groups- workers, farmers, professional men, scientists,
    soldiers- exist under dictatorships, even though they exist in
    chains, in terror, in misery, and in progressive
    self-destruction. But there is no such group as businessmen
    under a dictatorship. Their place is taken by armed thugs: by
    bureaucrats and commissars. Businessmen are the symbol of a
    free society- the symbol of America.</Text>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>The action required to sustain human life is primarily
    intellectual: everything man needs has to be discovered by his
    mind and produced by his effort.</Text>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him,
    save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his
    brothers.</Text>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>Politics is based on three other philosophical
    disciplines: metaphysics, epistemology and ethics- on a theory
    of man's nature and of man's relationship to existence. It is
    only on such a base that one can formulate a consistent
    political theory and achieve it in practice. When, however, men
    attempt to rush into politics without such a base, the result
    is that embarrassing conglomeration of impotence, futility,
    inconsistency and superficiality which is loosely designated
    today as conservatism.</Text>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>To rest one's case on faith means to concede that reason
    is on the side of one's enemies- that one has no rational
    arguments to offer.</Text>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>The basic need of the creator is independence. The
    reasoning mind cannot work under any form of compulsion. It
    cannot be curbed, sacrificed or subordinated to any
    consideration whatsoever. It demands total independence in
    function and in motive. To a creator, all relations with men
    are secondary.</Text>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>Men have been taught that the highest virtue is not to
    achieve, but to give. Yet one cannot give that which has not
    been created. Creation comes before distribution- or there will
    be nothing to distribute. The need of the creator comes before
    the need of any possible beneficiary. Yet we are taught to
    admire the second-hander who dispenses gifts he has not
    produced above the man who made the gifts possible. We praise
    an act of charity. We shrug at an act of achievement.</Text>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with
    others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been
    taught that it is a virtue to swim with the current. But the
    creator is the man who goes against the current. Men have been
    taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator
    is the man who stands alone.</Text>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>A crime is the violation of the right(s) of other men by
    force (or fraud). It is only the initiation of physical force
    against others- i.e., the recourse to violence- that can be
    classified as a crime in a free society (as distinguished from
    a civil wrong). Ideas, in a free society, are not a crime- and
    neither can they serve as the justification of a crime.</Text>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>By the same principle, the government may not give
    special leniency to the perpetrator of a crime, on the grounds
    of the nature of his ideas.</Text>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first
    line of defense against the chaos of mental
    disintegration.</Text>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>There are four characteristics which brand a country
    unmistakably as a dictatorship: one-party rule- executions
    without trial or with a mock trial, for political offenses- the
    nationalization or expropriation of private property- and
    censorship. A country guilty of these outrages forfeits any
    moral prerogatives, any claim to national rights or
    sovereignty, and becomes an outlaw.</Text>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>The right of a nation to determine its own form of
    government does not include the right to establish a slave
    society (that is, to legalize the enslavement of some men by
    others). There is no such thing as the right to enslave. A
    nation can do it, just as a man can become a criminal- but
    neither can do it by right.</Text>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>Every movement that seeks to enslave a country, every
    dictatorship or potential dictatorship, needs some minority
    group as a scapegoat which it can blame for the nation's
    troubles and use as a justification of its own demands for
    dictatorial powers. In Soviet Russia, the scapegoat was the
    bourgeoisie; in Nazi Germany, it was the Jewish people; in
    America, it is the businessmen.</Text>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>Unjust laws have to be fought ideologically; they cannot
    be fought or corrected by means of mere disobedience and futile
    martyrdom.</Text>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>To know one's own desires, their meaning and their costs
    requires the highest human virtue: rationality.</Text>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember
    that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale
    death.</Text>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by
    offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value;
    political power is exercised by means of a negative, by the
    threat of punishment, injury, imprisonment, destruction. The
    businessman's tool is values; the bureaucrat's tool is
    fear.</Text>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent.</Text>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>It stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's
    someone collecting sacrificial offerings. Where there's
    service, there's someone being served. The man who speaks to
    you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to
    be the master.</Text>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>To discuss evil in a manner implying neutrality, is to
    sanction it.</Text>
    <Topic>Ethics/Morality</Topic>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>The purpose of all art is the objectification of
    values.</Text>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>That something happened to you is of no importance to
    anyone, not even to you. The important thing about you is what
    you choose to make happen - your values and choices. That which
    happened by accident - what family you were born into, in what
    country, and where you went to school - is totally
    unimportant.</Text>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a
    heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of
    his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity,
    and reason as his only absolute.</Text>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Thomas Sowell</Author>
    <Text>It is bad enough that so many people believe things without any evidence. What is worse is that some people have no conception of evidence and regard facts as just someone else's opinion. </Text>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Thomas Sowell</Author>
    <Text>It is self-destructive for any society to create a situation where a baby who is born into the world today automatically has pre-existing grievances against another baby born at the same time, because of what their ancestors did centuries ago. It is hard enough to solve our own problems, without trying to solve our ancestors' problems. </Text>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Thomas Sowell</Author>
    <Text>The great curse of the 20th century was the inability of decent people to realize that what was unthinkable to them was both thinkable and doable by others -- like Hitler, Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot. Are we to wait until Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction and we wake up some morning to find a couple of American cities obliterated?</Text>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Barry Goldwater, 1964</Author>
    <Text>I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!</Text>
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  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Gregory Sams</Author>
    <Text>How many examples do we have of these bodies [of the state] set up to eliminate a problem, actually eliminating it, shutting down their operations and going home?</Text>
    <Topic />
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>John Davis, editor of Earth First Journal</Author>
    <Text>Human beings, as a species, have no more value than slugs.</Text>
    <Topic />
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>PJ O'Rourke</Author>
    <Text>A pleasant natural environment is a good - a luxury good, philosophical good, a moral goody-good, a good time for all. Whatever, we want it. If we want something, we should pay for it, with our labor or our cash. We shouldn't beg it, steal it, sit around wishing for it, or euchre the government into taking it by force.</Text>
    <Topic />
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>John D. Rockfeller</Author>
    <Text>[Socialists and anarchists] are the stench today in the nostrils of all honest men and women. They are a poison; and I would have them go and colonize and live out their theories and eat one another up; for they produce nothing and they subsist as suckers on what honest men, frugal and industrious, produce.</Text>
    <Topic />
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Thomas Edison</Author>
    <Text>Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.</Text>
    <Topic />
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ayn Rand</Author>
    <Text>The Unprocessed contents of ones stomach are vomit. So are the unprocessed contents of ones mind"</Text>
    <Topic />
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