Status Updates From Atlas Shrugged

"'I know that this stands for something.' 'The dollar sign? For a great deal. It stands on the vest of every fat, piglike figure in every cartoon, for the purpose of denoting a crook, a grafter, a scoundrel - as the one sure-fire brand of evil. It stands - as the money of a free country - for achievement, for success, for ability, for man's creative power...It stands for the initials of the United States'" (628).