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If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans, I would choose—because it contains all the others—the fact that they were the people who created the phrase 'to make money.' No other language or nation had ever used these words before... Americans were the first to understand that wealth has to be created. — Ayn Rand · 1957Americans1 quote
If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans, I would choose—because it contains all the others—the fact that they were the people who created the phrase 'to make money.' No other language or nation had ever used these words before... Americans were the first to understand that wealth has to be created. — Ayn Rand · 1957Civilization1 quote
Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. — Ayn Rand · 1943Individualism1 quote
I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine. — Ayn Rand · 1957New York City1 quote
I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York's skyline. — Ayn Rand · 1943Privacy1 quote
Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. — Ayn Rand · 1943