"Hard times are purposeful, meant to refine and redirect us. They're not arbitrary or random, and they're definitely not cruel."

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There can be no compromise between freedom and government controls; to accept 'just a few controls' is to surrender the principle of inalienable individual rights and to substitute for it the principle of the government’s unlimited, arbitrary power, thus delivering oneself into gradual enslavement. As an example of this process, observe the present domestic policy of the United States.

— Ayn Rand