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  [96] Skousen, America, 750.

  [97] Paterson, Isabel. The God of the Machine (Originally published in 1943. Qualiteri eBook, 2009), Chapter 7.

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  [102] Schweikart, Larry. and Michael Allen. A Patriot’s History of the United States: From Columbus’ Great Discovery to the War on Terror (New York: Penguin, 2004), 253.

  [103] This definition is drawn primarily from Ayn Rand. See “Capitalism.” The Ayn Rand Lexicon. Online. aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/capitalism.html. Accessed 14 Sep 2012.

  [104] Skousen, W. Cleon. The Naked Communist (Salt Lake City, Utah: Ensign Publishing Company, 1960), 276.

  [105] Some phrasing for this idea comes from Ayn Rand. See “Introducing Objectivism.” Aynrand.org. aynrand.org/site/PageServer?pagename=objectivismintro. Accessed 19 Sep 2012.

  [106] Paterson, Isabel. The God of the Machine (Originally published in 1943. Qualiteri eBook, 2009), Chapter 19.

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  [108] Rand, Ayn. The Virtue of Selfishness (New York: Signet, 1964), 33.

  [109] Allison, A., Parry, J., and W. Cleon Skousen. The Real George Washington (Washington D.C.: National Center for Constitutional Studies, 1991), 721. Emphasis added.

  [110] Perkins, John. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (New York: Penguin Group, 2004), 161.

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  [114] ibid, 31.

  [115] ibid, 38.

  [116] ibid, 47.

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  [121] Allison, A., Parry, J., and W. Cleon Skousen. The Real George Washington (Washington D.C.: National Center for Constitutional Studies, 1991), 720.

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  [128] Paterson, Machine, Chapter 6.

  [129] Schiff, Economy, 220.

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  [131] Allison, A., Maxfield, M., and W. Cleon Skousen. The Real Thomas Jefferson (Washington D.C.: National Center for Constitutional Studies, 2009), 395-96.

  [132] For more on inflation, its causes, and the problems it causes, read End the Fed, by Ron Paul.

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  [134] Rand, Ayn. Atlas Shrugged (New York: Signet, 1957) 387-91.

  [135] Schiff, Economy, 87.

  [136] Rand, Ayn. For the New Intellectual (New York: Signet, 1963), 25.

  [137] Peikoff, Leonard. The Ominous Parallels (New York: Penguin, 1982), 17.

  [138] Rand, Ayn. Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (New York: Signet, 1967), 20-21.

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  [140] Quoted in Peikoff, OP, 13.

  [141] Paterson, Isabel. The God of the Machine (Originally published in 1943. Qualiteri eBook, 2009), Chapter 14.

  [142] Lenzer, Gertrude, ed. Auguste Comte and Positivism (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers, 2006), 386.

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  [144] Quoted in Peikoff, OP, 73.

  [145] ibid, 74.

  [146] Hitler, Adolf. Ralph Manheim, trans. Mein Kampf (Houghton Mifflin: New York, 1999), 297.

  [147] Kant, Immanuel. The Critique of Pure Reason, The Critique of Practical Reason and Other Ethical Treatises, The Critique of Judgment (Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1978), 258.

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  [150] ibid, 387.

  [151] ibid, 387.

  [152] ibid, 254.

  [153] ibid, 263.

  [154] ibid, 270.

  [155] ibid, 271.

  [156] Mill, John, Stuart. Utilitarianism (Indianapolis: Hackett, 2001), 17. Emphasis added.

  [157] Bauman, Zygmunt. Does Ethics Have A Chance In A World of Consumers? (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2008), 62.

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  [159] Hitler, Kampf, 302.

  [160] Mill, Utilitarianism, 49.

  [161] Rand, Ayn. The Virtue of Selfishness (New York: Signet, 1964), ix.

  [162] Peikoff, OP, 59.

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  [164] Quoted in Peikoff, OP, 58.

  [165] Smith, “Pragmatism,” Online.

  [166] Peikoff, OP, 54.

  [167] ibid, 59.

  [168] Quoted in Westbrook, Robert. John Dewey and American Democracy (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1991), 27.

  [169] Westbrook, Dewey, 186.

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  [171] Biddle, Craig. Loving Life: The Morality of Self-Interest and the Facts That Support It (Richmond, Virginia: Glen Allen Press, 2002), 7.

  [172] Rand, Ayn. “The New Fascism: Rule By Consensus.” Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (New York: Signet, 1967), 206-7.

  [173] Sen, Amartya. Development as Freedom (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000), 211.

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  [177] ibid, 171.

  [178] Westbrook, Robert. John Dewey and American Democracy (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1991), 93.

  [179] Bell, Wilson, 433.

  [180] Safire, William, ed. Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in History (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1992), 727.

  [181] Bell, Wilson, 351.

  [182] Bell, Wilson, 60.

  [183] Safire, Great Speeches, 727.

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  [185] Bell, Wilson, 351.

  [186] Hitler, Mein Kampf, 427.

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  [189] Hitler, Mein Kampf, 457.

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  [193] Rand, Ayn. and Peter Schwartz, ed. Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution (New York: Penguin, 1999), 181.

  [194] Peikoff, OP, 40-41.

  [195] Quoted in ibid, 42.

  [196] While capitalizing “Black” goes against the typical standard used by media outlets and the AP Stylebook, we have chosen to capitalize in this book out of respect for the opinions of many Black authors who prefer to use it. Here’s how one author explained his choice: “I have chosen to capitalize the word “Black” and lowercase “white” throughout this book. I believe “Black” constitutes a group, an ethnicity equivalent to African-American, Negro, or, in terms of a sense of ethnic cohesion, Irish, Polish, or Chinese. I don’t believe that whiteness merits the same treatment. Most American whites think of themselves as Italian-American or Jewish or otherwise relating to other past connections that Blacks cannot make because of the familial and national disruptions of slavery. So to me, because Black speaks to an unknown familial/national past it deserves capitalization.” Online. dcentric.wamu.org/2011/10/when-to-capatalize-black-and-white/index.html. Accessed 18 Jul 2014.

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  [200] ibid, 316. In-text citations have been removed.

  [201] ibid, 313. In-text citations have been removed.

  [202] Quoted in Safire, Speeches, 499. “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”

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  [204] Bell, H.C.F. Woodrow Wilson and the People (Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran, and Company, 1993), 274.

  [205] Safire, Great Speeches, 782.

  [206] Quoted in Peikoff, OP, 16.

  [207] ibid, 35.

  [208] Hitler, Adolf. Ralph Manheim, trans. Mein Kampf (Houghton Mifflin: New York, 1999), 404.

  [209] Peikoff, OP, 45.

  [210] Bell, Wilson , 511.

  [211] Marx, Karl. and Frederick Engels. The Communist Manifesto (London: Verso, 1998), 34.

  [212] Skousen, W. Cleon. The Naked Communist (Salt Lake City, Utah: Ensign Publishing Company, 1960), 38.

  [213] Marx, Manifesto, 59.

  [214] Quoted in Skousen, Naked Communist, 305.

  [215] Marx, Manifesto, 35.

  [216] ibid, 77, 52.

  [217] ibid, 38.

  [218] Thompson, C. Bradley. “Why Marxism? Evil Laid Bare.” The Objective Standard. Vol. 7, No. 2. Online. theobjectivestandard.com/issues/2012-summer/why-marxism.asp. Accessed 10 Aug 2012.

  [219] Marx, Manifesto, 60-61.

  [220] Engels, Frederick. Principles of Communism. 1847. Online. marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/11/prin-com.htm. Accessed 11 Aug 2011.

  [221] Marx, Manifesto, 56.

  [222] ibid, 57.

  [223] Quoted in Skousen, Naked Communist, 72-73.

  [224] Quoted in ibid, 73.

  [225] Marx, Manifesto, 35.

  [226] Quoted in Skousen, Naked Communist, 46.

  [227] Skousen, Naked Communist, 46.

  [228] ibid.

  [229] Gunderson, Garrett. and Stephen Palmer. Killing Sacred Cows (Provo, Utah: Decade Media, 2007), 30.

  [230] Engels, Principles of Communism, Online.

  [231] Retold from Skousen, Naked Communist, 82-83.

  [232] Thompson, “Why Marxism?” Online.

  [233] Safire, William, ed. Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in History (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1992), 781.

  [234] Marx, Manifesto, 77.

  [235] Peikoff, OP, 19.

  [236] Westbrook, Robert. John Dewey and American Democracy (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1991), 190.

  [237] As told to the authors by Chelsea Nelson.

  [238] Quoted in Forbes, Steve. and Elizabeth Ames. How Capitalism Will Save Us (New York: Crown Business, 2009), 23.

 

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