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The goal of the 'liberals' - as it emerges from the record of the past decades - was to smuggle this country into welfare statism by means of single, concrete, specific measures, enlarging the power of the government a

The goal of the 'liberals' - as it emerges from the record of the past decades - was to smuggle this country into welfare statism by means of single, concrete, specific measures, enlarging the power of the government a step at a time, never permitting these steps to be summed up into principles, never permitting their direction to be identified or the basic issue to be named. Thus, statism was to come, not by vote or by violence, but by slow rot - by a long process of evasion and epistemological corruption, leading to a fait accompli.

Ayn Rand
Country, Mean, Past

Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.

Ayn Rand
Future, Past, Class
"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

Capitalism is not the system of the past; it is the system of the future -- if mankind is to have a future

Ayn Rand
Future, Past, Humanity
Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.30, Penguin

You love your work. God help you, you love it! And thats the curse. That's the brand on your forehead for all of them to see. You love it and they know it, and they know they have you. Do you ever look at the people in the street? Aren't you afraid of them? I am. They move past you and they wear hats and they carry bundles. But that's not the substance of them. The substance of them is hatred for any man who loves his work. That's the only kind they fear. I don't know why

Ayn Rand
Moving, Past, Men
Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.61, Penguin

There were things in my past which I have not liked. But all the things of which I was proud will remain.

Ayn Rand
Past, Proud, My Past
Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.765, Penguin

She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense of detachment one feels when looking at the earth from a plane was the same sense she felt when looking at people: only her distance from people seemed longer. - Dagny Taggart

Ayn Rand
Distance, Past, Rivers
Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.1972, Penguin

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