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  • Freedom, in a political context, means freedom from government coercion. It does not mean freedom from the landlord, from the employer, or freedom from the laws of nature which do not provide men with automatic prosperity. It means freedom from the coercive power of the state ' and nothing else

    Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.196, Penguin