"Yet there comes a time in the life of a patriot when abdication would amount to a betrayal if not outright treachery."

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Every man builds his world in his own image; he has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice. If he abdicates his power, he abdicates the status of man, and the grinding chaos of the irrational is what he achieves as his sphere of existence—by his own choice.

— Ayn Rand