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“Abraham Lincoln. He was the first president elected to office under the Republican Party’s new banner—a party established to oppose slavery and defend human freedom.”
― Ted Cruz, A Time for Truth: Reigniting the Promise of America

“Do-gooders fail to realize that most good is not done in the name of good but done in the name of self-interest.”
― Walter E. Williams, American Contempt for Liberty

“No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character,” John Morley,”
― Ronald Kessler, The First Family Detail: Secret Service Agents Reveal the Hidden Lives of the Presidents

“In a moral society, these are the criminals, and the statutes are written to protect you against them. But when a society establishes criminals-by-right and looters-by-law—men who use force to seize the wealth of disarmed victims—then money becomes its creators’ avenger. Such looters believe it safe to rob defenseless men, once they’ve passed a law to disarm them. But their loot becomes the magnet for other looters, who get it from them as they got it. Then the race goes, not to the ablest at production, but to those most ruthless at brutality. When force is the standard, the murderer wins over the pickpocket. And then that society vanishes, in a spread of ruins and slaughter.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged