Five reasons Ayn Rand loved the United States of America: 'The right to live by one's own judgment'
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Ayn Rand advocated individual rights and limited government; born in totalitarian Russia she loved the United States and believed in American exceptionalism.
"She believed what the Founding Fathers achieved was pretty close to perfection," Yaron Brook, chair of the California-based Ayn Rand Institute, told Fox News Digital. "My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being" — Ayn Rand "Ayn Rand believed what the Founding Fathers achieved was pretty close to perfection." — Yaron Brook "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." — Ayn Rand Kerry J. Byrne is a lifestyle reporter with Fox News Digital.
"She also believed that the nation wasn’t living up to the promise of what the founders had actually created. But she thought they did as good a job as anybody could [in] setting down the principles of how a country should govern itself."
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