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    Ayn Rand:
    "The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence....The only proper functions of a government are: the police, to protect you from criminals; the army, to protect you from foreign invaders; and the courts, to protect your property and contracts from breach or fraud by others, and to settle disputes by rational rules, according to objective law."

    Outside of the Libertarians, whose platform, in our time, will probably never see the light of day, the Republican Party still represents the best chance to combat big government (Democrat Party).

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    • Although she hated Reagan, I admire her: http://en.wikipedia.…
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    • The again if you are a homosexual, you aren't going to like her, but she was old school.
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    • Haha! Ayn Rand..oh that's rich..it's like philosophy for retardsTheBlueOne
    • You really think so?
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    • yes and her acolyte Greenspan
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    • Ayn Rand: but who will protect little men form me?
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    • Another method was to keep the members, as far as possible, in a state of fevered emotion through continual re-readings of Atlas. Shortly after Atlas was published, one high-ranking cult leader chided me for only having read Atlas once. "It’s about time for you to start reading it again," he admonished. "I have already read Atlas thirty-five times."

      The rereading of Atlas was also important to the cult because the wooden, posturing, and one-dimensional heroes and heroines were explicitly supposed to serve as role models for every Randian.
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    • readings of Atlas. Shortly after Atlas was published, one high-ranking cult leader chided me for only having read Atlas once. "It’s about time for you to start reading it again," he admonished. "I have already read Atlas thirty-five times."

      The rereading of Atlas was also important to the cult because the wooden, posturing, and one-dimensional heroes and heroines were explicitly supposed to serve as role models for every Randian.
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    • "It’s about time for you to start reading it again," he admonished. "I have already read Atlas thirty-five times."
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