The concept of individual rights is so prodigious a feat of political thinking that few men grasp it fully - and two hundred years have not been enough for other countries to understand it. But this is the concept to which we owe our lives - the concept which made it possible for us to bring into reality everything of value that any of us did or will achieve or experience.

The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z (ed. Penguin, 1988) - ISBN: 9781101137246