Just tweeted this.

Eudaimonia Rick ‏@eudaimoniarick
#TalkLikeAPirateDay When robbery becomes the purpose of the law... it is an outlaw who has to become a policeman. - Ragnar Danneskjold #ASP3

I'd like to be present at your first lecture on philosophy...I'd like to see how you will be able to keep their minds on the subject...[and] answer the irrelevant questions I won't blame them for wanting to ask you.

I will tell them they'll find the answers in the subject.

Just tweeted:

#TalkLikeAPirateDay Which law should I abide by? Directive 10-289? - Ragnar Danneskjold #ASP3 @AtlasShrugged @arinstitute

Just tweeted:

#TalkLikeAPirateDay There are only two modes of living left to us... I did not choose to be either. -Ragnar Danneskjold #ASP3 @AtlasShrugged

this is a good one;

"I know that you don’t need this gold at present. What you need is the justice which it represents, and the knowledge that there are men who care for justice."

It is not success but calamity that we regard as the abnormal exception in human life.

Hey, khalling, thank D for me for jumping into the twitter pool and retweeting!

When robbery is done in daylight by sanction of the law, honor is hidden underground
(I had to chop it up a bit lol)

"Are you thinking that death and taxes are our only certainty.....? Well, there's nothing I can do about the first, but if I lift the burden of the second, men might learn to see the connection between the two and what a longer, happier life they have the power to achieve. They might learn to hold, not death and taxes, but life and production as their two absolutes and as the base of their moral code."

"Robin Hood is not remembered as a champion of property, but as a champion of need, not as a defender of the robbed, but as a provider of the poor. He is held to be the first man who assumed a halo of virtue by practicing charity with wealth which he did not own, by giving away goods which he had not produced, by making others pay for the luxury of his pity. He is the man who became a symbol of the idea that need, not achievement, is the source of rights, that we don’t have to produce, only to want, that the earned does not belong to us, but the unearned does. He became a justification for every mediocrity who, unable to make his own living, had demanded the power to dispose of the property of his betters, by proclaiming his willingness to devote his life to his inferiors at the price of robbing his superiors. It is this foulest of creatures – the double-parasite who lives on the sores of the poor and the blood of the rich – whom men have come to regard as the moral idea." ". . . Do you wonder why the world is collapsing around us? That is what I am fighting, Mr. Rearden. Until men learn that of all human symbols, Robin Hood is the most immoral and the most contemptible, there will be no justice on earth and no way for mankind to survive"

#TalkLikeAPirateDay What I actually am, Mr. Rearden, is a policeman #ASP3 @AtlasShrugged @arinstitute

Just tweeted:

#TalkLikeAPirateDay Who is the man of higher morality: I or Wesley Mouch? - Ragnar Danneskjold #ASP3 @AtlasShrugged @arinstitute

I found this:
"...let my fellow men learn the outcome of a contest in which there’s nothing but brute force on one side, and force ruled by a mind, on the other."
which could be condensed to this
let them learn the outcome of a contest with only force on one side and force ruled by a mind on the other
still 84 characters, drat.

Just tweeted:

#TalkLikeAPirateDay I am merely complying with the system which my fellow men have established. -Ragnar D. #ASP3 @AtlasShrugged @arinstitute

Another nice one,

"If they believe that force is the proper means to deal with one another, I am giving them what they ask for. If they believe that the purpose of my life is to serve them, let them try to enforce their creed. If they believe that my mind is their property—let them come and get it"

Might be a bit long.

Just tweeted:
#TalkLikeAPirateDay When they took Rearden Metal away from you, it was too much, even for me. - Ragnar D. #ASP3 @Rearden_Tweets @arinstitute

Just tweeted:
#TalkLikeAPirateDay If they believe that my mind is their property—let them come and get it. - Ragnar D. #ASP3 @AtlasShrugged @arinstitute

"One of these centuries, the brutes, private or public, who believe that they can rule their betters by force, will learn the lesson of what happens when brute force encounters mind and force." R. Danneskjold

@gblaze47: thanks for jumping in, and thanks for the retweets!