If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans, I would choose—because it contains all the others—the fact that they were the people who created the phrase 'to make money.' No other language or nation had ever used these words before... Americans were the first to understand that wealth has to be created.

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Rand, Ayn. Atlas Shrugged. Random House, 1957, pt. 2, ch. 2.