"Freedom is not defined by safety. Freedom is defined by..." - Ron Paul

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"Freedom is not defined by safety. Freedom is defined by the ability of citizens to live without government interference." - Ron Paul


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  • Posted by $ MikeMarotta 10 years, 4 months ago
    Ayn Rand might not agree without reservations. Reducing complex issues to pithy one-liners opens the door to Orwellian thought control in which easy-to-memorize maxims such as "War is peace." replace critical analysis. In point of fact, in an interview with Edwin Newman in 1972 on NBC's Speaking Freely Ayn Rand said:

    “But on the matter of protecting people from physical danger, if certain conditions of employment, let us say, are unsafe and it can be proved that there is a physical risk – I don’t say that we have to wait until somebody dies – then the employer who is creating this risk can be sued, and can be severely punished financially. In other words, there can be a law protecting a man from physical injury by another man. In this case, the employer who puts men into conditions of danger – not accidentally, but intentionally or carelessly – can be penalized because he is infringing the right of his workers not to be injured physically.”
    The entire interview and many others are collected in the anthology Objectively Speaking: Ayn Rand Interviewed, edited by Marlene Podritske and Peter Schwartz (Lexington Books, 2009).
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