Rose Wilder Lane Quotes
As an American I am of course fundamentally opposed to democracy and to anyone advocating or defending democracy, which in theory and practice is the basis of socialism.
Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.
Men in Government monopolize the necessary use of force; they are not using their energies productively; they are not milking cows. To get butter, they must use guns; they have nothing else to use.
No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men.
What I can't understand is, how can anybody figure now that the government can support us, when we support the government.
It was not seen that woman's place was in the home until she began to go out of it; the statement was a reply to an unspoken challenge, it was attempted resistance to irresistible change.
The need for Government is the need for force; where force is unnecessary, there is no need for Government.
I'm not "filled with my art". I ain't got no art. I've got only a kind of craftsman's skill, and make stories as I make biscuits or embroider underwear or wrap up packages.
We are never aware of the present; each instant of living becomes perceptible only when it is past, so that in a sense we do not live at all, but only remember living.
no one in a group of three is the same person he (she, it) is in a group of two. No more than he is the same in a group of two as he is alone.
The question is whether personal freedom is worth the terrible effort, the never-lifted burden and risks of self-reliance.
Plants and animals repeat routine, but men who are not restrained will go into the future like explorers into a new country.
The Democratic Party is now a political mechanism having a genuine political principle: national socialism.
That way of life against which my generation rebelled had given us grim courage, fortitude, self-discipline, a sense of individual responsibility, and a capacity for relentless hard work.
Making the best of things is a damn poor way of dealing with them. My life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand.
I came out of the Soviet Union no longer a communist, because I believed in personal freedom.
An Old World revolution is only a movement around a motionless center; it never breaks out of the circle. Firm in the center is belief in Authority.
Writing fiction is an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.
As novices, we think we're entirely responsible for the way people treat us. I have long since learned that we are responsible only for the way we treat people.
The first twenty years of my life were wasted. I didn't fit my environment, and I didn't know any other.
It is precisely democracy which is destroying the American political structure, American law, and the American economy.