I can say-not as a patriotic bromide, but with full knowledge of the n…

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I can say-not as a patriotic bromide, but with full knowledge of the necessary metaphysical, epistemological , ethical, political and esthetic roots-that the United States of America is the greatest, the noblest and, in its original founding principles, the only moral country in the history of the world. ✨ Ayn Rand (1988). The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z, p.37, Penguin
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