Status Updates From Atlas Shrugged

"...the rebirth of d'Anconia Copper - and of the world - has to start here, in the United States. This country was the only country in history born, not of chance and blind tribal warfare, but as a rational product of man's mind. This country was built on the supremacy of reason - and, for one magnificent century, it redeemed the world. It will have to do so again" (707).