The right to life is the source of all rights--and the right to property is their only implementation. Without property rights, no other rights are possible. Since man has to sustain his life by his own effort, the man who has no right to the product of his effort has no means to sustain his life. The man who produces while others dispose of his product, is a slave. -Ayn Rand

 

The right to life is the source of all rights--and the right to property is their only implementation. Without property rights, no other rights are possible. Since man has to sustain his life by his own effort, the man who has no right to the product of his effort has no means to sustain his life. The man who produces while others dispose of his product, is a slave.


-Ayn Rand
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Learn to value yourself, which means: to fight for your happiness.

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He was guilty of nothing, except that he earned his own fortune and never forgot that it was his.

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The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.

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