America's founding Ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothi…

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America's founding Ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more - and nothing less. ✨ Ayn Rand (1988). The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z, p.37, Penguin
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