Ayn Rand Quote of the day - 08.17.09

“Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.”

- Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand Quote of the day - 08.16.09

"I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction."

- Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand Quote of the day - 08.15.09

"The [U.S.] Constitution is a limitation on the government, not on private individuals ... it does not prescribe the conduct of private individuals, only the conduct of the government ... it is not a charter for government power, but a charter of the citizen's protection against the government."

- Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand Quote of the day - 08.14.09

"Everyone has the right to make his own decision/s, but none has the right to force his decision on others."

- Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand Quote of the day - 08.13.09

"An individualist is a man who says: 'I will not run anyone's life - nor let anyone run mine. I will not rule or be ruled. I will not be a master nor a slave. I will not sacrifice myself to anyone - nor sacrifice anyone to myself.' "

- Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand Quote of the day - 08.12.09

"Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives."

- Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand Quote of the day - 08.11.09

"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."

- Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand Quote of the day - 08.10.09

"The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it."

- Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand Quote of the day - 08.09.09

"A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims."

- Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand Quote of the Day - 08.08.09

"We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force."

- Ayn Rand