Subnostr

To the glory of mankind, there was, for the first and only time in history, a country of money — and I have no higher, more reverent tribute to pay to America, for this means: a country of reason, justice, freedom, production, achievement.

For the first time, man's mind and money were set free, and there were no fortunes-by-conquest, but only fortunes-by-work.

Instead of swordsmen and slaves, there appeared the real maker of wealth, the greatest worker, the highest type of human being — the self-made man — the American industrialist. 🇺🇸

Tomek ⚡ K 2y ago

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; men had always thought of wealth as a static quantity — to be seized, begged, inherited, shared, looted or obtained as a favor.

Americans were the first to understand that wealth has to be created. The words "to make money" hold the essence of human morality. 🏭

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Tomek ⚡ K 2y ago

Yet these were the words for which Americans were denounced by the rotted cultures of the looters' continents.

Now the looters' credo has brought you to regard your proudest achievements as a hallmark of shame, your prosperity as guilt, your greatest men - the industrialists - as blackguards, and your magnificent factories as the product and property of muscular labor, the labor of whip-driven slaves, like the pyramids of Egypt.

The rotter who simpers that he sees no difference between the power of the dollar and the power of the whip ought to learn the difference on his own hide — as, I think, he will.