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“We have to be despised by somebody whom we regard as above us or we are not happy; we have to have somebody to worship and envy or we cannot be content.”
― Alex Ayres, The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Timeless Anthology—Hilarious, Cranky, and Insightful Quotations from America's Legendary Humorist

“Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy.”
― Alex Ayres, QUOTABLE AYN RAND: An A to Z Glossary of Quotations from Ayn Rand

“Ours is the “land of the free”—nobody denies that—nobody challenges it. (Maybe it is because we won’t let other people testify.) —Roughing It, 1872, ch. 54 (commenting on mistreatment of
Chinese in the West)”
― Alex Ayres, The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Timeless Anthology—Hilarious, Cranky, and Insightful Quotations from America's Legendary Humorist

“This country was not built... by men who sought handouts. John Galt speech, Atlas Shrugged, 1957”
― Alex Ayres, QUOTABLE AYN RAND: An A to Z Glossary of Quotations from Ayn Rand

“I am a trader. I earn what I get in trade for what I produce. I ask for nothing more or nothing less than what I earn. That is justice.”
― Alex Ayres, QUOTABLE AYN RAND: An A to Z Glossary of Quotations from Ayn Rand

“Your world is only the product of your sacrifices.”
― Alex Ayres, QUOTABLE AYN RAND: An A to Z Glossary of Quotations from Ayn Rand

“Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one’s values. Atlas”
― Alex Ayres, QUOTABLE AYN RAND: An A to Z Glossary of Quotations from Ayn Rand

“The Constitution of the United States . . . stressed not independence but interdependence, not the individual liberty of one but the indivisible liberty of all. —Independence Day address, July 4, 1962 (see INTERDEPENDENCE”
― Alex Ayres, The Wit and Wisdom of John F. Kennedy: An A-to-Z Compendium of Quotations

“In the final chapter of Profiles in Courage, Kennedy concludes: “The stories of past courage can define that ingredient—they can teach, they can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul.”
― Alex Ayres, The Wit and Wisdom of John F. Kennedy: An A-to-Z Compendium of Quotations

“The choices we make, for good or ill, will affect the welfare of generations yet unborn. —State of the Union message, January 14, 1963”
― Alex Ayres, The Wit and Wisdom of John F. Kennedy: An A-to-Z Compendium of Quotations

“As man is a being of self-made wealth, so he is a being of self-made soul.”
― Alex Ayres, QUOTABLE AYN RAND: An A to Z Glossary of Quotations from Ayn Rand

“The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum; whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of whose who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles. Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, 1966”
― Alex Ayres, QUOTABLE AYN RAND: An A to Z Glossary of Quotations from Ayn Rand

“Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one’s values.”
― Alex Ayres, QUOTABLE AYN RAND: An A to Z Glossary of Quotations from Ayn Rand

“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve,”
― Alex Ayres, QUOTABLE AYN RAND: An A to Z Glossary of Quotations from Ayn Rand

“When I say ‘capitalism,’ I mean a pure, uncontrolled, unregulated laissez-faire capitalism”
― Alex Ayres, QUOTABLE AYN RAND: An A to Z Glossary of Quotations from Ayn Rand

“Objectivism holds that the good must be defined by a rational standard of value, that pleasure is not a first cause, but only a consequence,”
― Alex Ayres, QUOTABLE AYN RAND: An A to Z Glossary of Quotations from Ayn Rand

“This god, this one word: “I.”
― Alex Ayres, QUOTABLE AYN RAND: An A to Z Glossary of Quotations from Ayn Rand