Businessmen are the one group that distinguishes capitalism and the American
way of life from the totalitarian statism that is swallowing the rest of the
world. All the other social groups—workers, farmers, professional men,
scientists, soldiers—exist under dictatorships, even though they exist in
chains, in terror, in misery, and in progressive self-destruction. But there
is no such group as businessmen under a dictatorship. Their place is taken by
armed thugs: by bureaucrats and commissars. Businessmen are the symbol of a
free society—the symbol of America. If and when they perish, civilization
will perish. But if you wish to fight for freedom, you must begin by fighting
for its unrewarded, unrecognized, unacknowledged, yet best representatives—the
American businessmen.