"Government power is always abused by seizing and perverting the law. And with few exceptions, government always determines what is law."

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Source : John Galt (1986). “Dreams Come Due: Government and Economics As If Freedom Mattered”

John Galt

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“You lose power in Britain and you are just Joe Public again.”
“I later spent... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release.”
“Education is not for profit. If you're not in education for profit, it's not going to be a fair critique for education.”
“I don't wake up every day and think about which tournaments I won and which titles I hold. It's something I don't care about.”
“Can we reasonably expect happiness from an insatiable appetite which, no matter how it stuffs its belly, is still psychologically like Oliver Twist in the poorhouse, holding up an empty bowl and begging, "I want some more"? Isn't it possible that our dream of the good society contained, from the beginning, a hidden violation of the Tenth Commandment "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's goods"?”

Source : Joy Davidman (1985). “Smoke on the Mountain: An Interpretation of the Ten Commandments”, p.119, Westminster John Knox Press
“No one starts out with the answers. You figure them out as you go and you learn from the people who figured them out before you.”

Source : Andrew Klavan (2012). “The Homelanders”, p.326, Thomas Nelson Inc
“The Moon is essentially gray - no color - looks like plaster of paris - soft of gray sand.”
“In Germany I ingested the entire contents of the hotel mini-bar before a show and stuck my fingers in this guy's nostrils because I thought they would fit.”

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