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"Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today." -Ayn Rand
"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." -Ayn Rand
"Honor is self-esteem made visible in action." -Ayn Rand
"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." -Ayn Rand
"Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one’s values." -Ayn Rand
"Rights are moral principles which define and protect a man's freedom of action,but impose no obligation on other men."  -Ayn Rand
"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." --Thomas Jefferson
Don't be so humble - you are not that great." - Golda Meir
"If a man does his best, what else is there?" - - General George S. Patton 
"I'll moider da bum"- Heavyweight boxer Tony Galento, when asked what he thought of William Shakespeare 
"Do, or do not. There is no 'try'." -Yoda
"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." - unknown 
"I'll sleep when I'm dead." - Warren Zevon 
"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." - Henry Ford 
"Wit is educated insolence. " - Aristotle 
"Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them. " - Samuel Palmer 
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. " - Sir Winston Churchill 
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. " - Aristotle 
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. " - Albert Einstein
"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. " - Albert Einstein 
"Poverty and Suffering are not due to unequal distribution of goods and resources, but to the unequal distribution of capitalism" - Rush Limbaugh
"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" - Ronald Reagan
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" - Voltaire  
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" - Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence
"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." - Ayn Rand
"We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor." - Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence 
"This country was founded by religious nuts with guns." -P.J. O'Rourke
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin
"Government is not the solution to the problem. Government is the problem" - Ronald Reagan
"Where self-interest is suppressed, it is replaced by a burdensome system of bureaucratic control that dries up the wellsprings of initiative and creativity." - Pope John Paul II
"Who are all these guys?" - Al Gore (Looking at busts of the founding fathers while visiting Monticello)
"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" - Adam Smith
"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." - George Washington
"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." Ludwig Von Mises
"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." Ludwig Von Mises
"The first condition for the establishment of perpetual peace is the general adoption of the principles of laissez-faire capitalism." Ludwig Von Mises
"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. "- Winston Churchill
"Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself." - Milton Friedman
"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." Ludwig Von Mises
"As the science of economics...exploded the fallacies of every brand of utopianism, it was outlawed and stigmatized as unscientific." Ludwig Von Mises
"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."- Milton Friedman
"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." - Albert Jay Nock
"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. " - Ayn Rand
"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."- George Reisman
"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. "- Thomas Sowell
"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." - Brian S. Wesbury
"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." Ludwig Von Mises
"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. "- Edward Abbey
"The state is the great fiction by which everybody tries to live at the expense of everybody else. "- Frederic Bastiat
"The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments." - William H. Borah
"Governments will always misuse the machinery of the law as far as the state of public opinion permits." - Emile Capouya
"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." - Thomas Jefferson
"It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself." - Thomas Jefferson
"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." - Thomas Jefferson
"A little government and a little luck are necessary in life; but only a fool trusts either of them. "- P.J. O'Rourke
"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." - Ayn Rand
"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." - Ayn Rand
"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." - James Fenimore Cooper
"The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire." - Robert Heinlein
"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." - Robert Heinlein
"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." - Thomas Jefferson
"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
"Necessity is the plea of every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves." - William Pitt
"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." - Ayn Rand
"O, it is excellent / To have a giant's strength! But it is tyrannous /To use it like a giant. "- William Shakespeare
"Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years." - Jeff Burroughs
"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." - Ayn Rand, "Textbook of Americanism" 