Ayn Rand is trending because leftists say they'll never date someone with her books. I'm not interested in dating them, either. So here's a THREAD of quotes by Rand.

"The smallest minority is the individual." - Ayn Rand

"Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing." - Ayn Rand

"When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you – you know your nation is doomed." - Ayn Rand

"The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government." - Ayn Rand

"There is no such dichotomy as 'human rights' versus 'property rights.' No human rights can exist without property rights." - Ayn Rand

"Capitalism is the only system that can make freedom, individuality, and the pursuit of values possible in practice." - Ayn Rand

"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." - Ayn Rand

"All depressions are caused by government interference and the cure is always offered to take more of the poison that caused the disaster. Depressions are not the result of a free economy." - Ayn Rand

"Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives." - Ayn Rand

"Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel." - Ayn Rand

"The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time." - Ayn Rand