Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.
Ayn RandReason can be fought with reason. How are you going to fight the unreasonable? The trouble with you, my dear, and with most people, is that you donโt have sufficient respect for the senseless. The senseless is the major factor in our lives. You have no chance if it is your enemy.
Ayn RandCollectivism holds that the individual has no rights, that his life and work belong to the group (to "society," to the tribe, the state, the nation) and that the group may sacrifice him at its own whim to its own interests. The only way to implement a doctrine of that kind is by means of brute force - and statism has always been the poltical corollary of collectivism.
Ayn Rand