All progress is the work of individuals. Ayn Rand

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. Ayn Rand
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Action without a name, a ‘who’ attached to it, is meaningless. Hannah Arendt

Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight. Hannah Arendt

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. Hannah Arendt

Ideas, as distinguished from events, are never unprecedented. Hannah Arendt

It is far easier to act under conditions of tyranny than to think. Hannah Arendt

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Patience will achieve more than force. Edmund Burke

Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it. They may be distressed in the midst of all their power; but they will never look to anything but power for their relief. Edmund Burke

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. Edmund Burke

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. Edmund Burke

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. Edmund Burke

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