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" Money is the barometer of a society's virtue. "

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" When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is. "

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" A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom. "

" Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter. "

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" The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. "

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

" The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see. "

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" Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual). "

" Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death. "

" A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving. "