Posted on 10/23/2013 7:57:59 PM PDT by Kolath
I can't say that I have a favorite quote from Atlas Shrugged but I do have a favorite Ayn Rand quote when I think of liberals.
“You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.”
However, Obama's distain of the law he swore to defend caused this Ayn Rand quote to run a close second.
"When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you - you know your nation is doomed."
there was something about a need on one party becomming a claim upon another
“There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What’s there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted and you create a nation of law-breakers — and then you cash in on guilt. Now that’s the system.”
Quote by: Ayn Rand
(1905-1982) Author
Source: “Atlas Shrugged”, Part II, Chapter 3
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