fromPhilosophy: Who Needs It - Address To The Graduating Class Of
The United States Military Academy at West Point
New York — March 6, 1974
by Ayn Rand
In conclusion, allow me to speak in personal terms. This evening means a great deal to me. I feel deeply honored by the opportunity to address you. 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.
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