Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their deliberate actions, long persevered in, which they hold to be motivated by high ideals toward virtuous ends.

If It Prove Fair Weather
1943. "
Paterson and Rand promoted each other's books and conducted an extensive correspondence over the years in which they often touched on religion and philosophy.

Isabel Paterson (January 22 1886 – January 10 1961) was a Canadian-American journalist novelist political philosopher and a leading literary critic of her day. Her biographer Stephen D. Paterson's best-known work her 1943 book The God of the Machine a treatise on political philosophy economics and history reached conclusions and espoused beliefs that many libertarians credit as a foundation of their philosophy.