"Now, I don't care to discuss the alleged complaints American Indians have against this country. I believe, with good reason, the most unsympathetic Hollywood portrayal of Indians and what they did to the white man. They had no right to a country merely because they were born here and then acted like savages. The white man did not conquer this country..."
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Address To The Graduating Class Of The United States Military Academy at West Point (1974)
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Ayn Rand
1905 – 1982
Zitiert aus "Wer ist John Galt", deutsche Ăśbersetzung von Barbara Klau und HansjĂĽrgen Wille, GEWIS Verlag, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 978-3932564031
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