#happyindependenceday — Public Fediverse posts

For more of #AynRand’s perspective on #IndividualRights and how #government can protect them, here are some resources for those who want to explore the deeper significance of #IndependenceDay: https://newideal.aynrand.org/its-independence-day-not-just-the-fourth-of-july/

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“The #Americans were #political #revolutionaries but not #ethical revolutionaries. Whatever their partial (and largely implicit) acceptance of the principle of ethical #egoism, they remained explicitly within the standard #European tradition, avowing their primary allegiance to a #moral code stressing philanthropic service and social duty.”

— “The Ominous Parallels,” Leonard Peikoff
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“#America’s inner contradiction was the #altruist-#collectivist #ethics. #Altruism is incompatible with #freedom, with #capitalism and with #IndividualRights. One cannot combine the pursuit of #happiness with the #moral status of a sacrificial animal.”

— “Man’s #Rights” by #AynRand
https://a.co/hICQIU7

#HappyIndependenceDay #Happy4thOfJuly #Happy4th #IndependenceDay #4thOfJuly #July4th #FourthOfJuly #USA

“#America’s inner contradiction was the #altruist-#collectivist #ethics. #Altruism is incompatible with #freedom, with #capitalism and with #IndividualRights. One cannot combine the pursuit of #happiness with the #moral status of a sacrificial animal.”

— “Man’s #Rights” by #AynRand
https://a.co/hICQIU7

#HappyIndependenceDay #Happy4thOfJuly #Happy4th #IndependenceDay #4thOfJuly #July4th #FourthOfJuly #USA

“#America’s inner contradiction was the #altruist-#collectivist #ethics. #Altruism is incompatible with #freedom, with #capitalism and with #IndividualRights. One cannot combine the pursuit of #happiness with the #moral status of a sacrificial animal.”

— “Man’s #Rights” by #AynRand
https://a.co/hICQIU7

#HappyIndependenceDay #Happy4thOfJuly #Happy4th #IndependenceDay #4thOfJuly #July4th #FourthOfJuly #USA

“#America’s inner contradiction was the #altruist-#collectivist #ethics. #Altruism is incompatible with #freedom, with #capitalism and with #IndividualRights. One cannot combine the pursuit of #happiness with the #moral status of a sacrificial animal.”

— “Man’s #Rights” by #AynRand
https://a.co/hICQIU7

#HappyIndependenceDay #Happy4thOfJuly #Happy4th #IndependenceDay #4thOfJuly #July4th #FourthOfJuly #USA

“#America’s inner contradiction was the #altruist-#collectivist #ethics. #Altruism is incompatible with #freedom, with #capitalism and with #IndividualRights. One cannot combine the pursuit of #happiness with the #moral status of a sacrificial animal.”

— “Man’s #Rights” by #AynRand
https://a.co/hICQIU7

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“It took centuries of intellectual, #philosophical development to achieve #political freedom. It was a long struggle, stretching from #Aristotle to #JohnLocke to the #FoundingFathers. The system they established was not based on unlimited majority rule, but on its opposite: on #IndividualRights, which were not to be alienated by majority vote or minority plotting. […] This was the great #American achievement.”

—“Theory and Practice,” #AynRand
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“I can say—not as a patriotic bromide, but with full knowledge of the necessary metaphysical, epistemological, ethical, political and esthetic roots—that the #UnitedStatesOfAmerica is the greatest, the noblest and, in its original founding principles, the only moral country in the history of the world.”

— ‘#Philosophy: Who Needs It’ by #AynRand
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“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable #Rights, that among these are Life, #Liberty and the pursuit of #Happiness.”

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