Whoever is fortunate enough to be an American citizen came into the greatest inheritance man has ever enjoyed. He has had the benefit of every heroic and intellectual effort men have made for many thousands of years, realized at last.… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
Not uncommonly one hears some romantic young woman say, 'Oh, I would give anything to be a writer.' But she would not; and 'anything' is not enough. One must give everything. — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
“Newton was asked as a mathematician, not as a moralist. He replied 'Gentlemen, in applied mathematics, you must describe your unit.” — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
But when the good people do know, as they certainly do, that three million persons (at the least estimate) were starved to death in… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
“But in a free enterprise economy, increased production increases the number of jobs. It might be said that one job creates another, which is… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
“If Charles F. Kettering or Thomas Alva Edison or Henry Ford had been put to work digging ditches under duress, one could calculate approximately… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
Every politically controlled educational system will inculcate the doctrine of state supremacy sooner or later. . . . Once that doctrine has been accepted,… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
Nothing increases the number of jobs so rapidly as labor-saving machinery, because it releases wants theretofore unknown, by permitting leisure. — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
If Americans should now turn back, submit again to slavery, it would be a betrayal so base the human race might better perish. — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
“The intrinsic nature of the power authorized was so little realized that this was called "free education," the most absolute contradiction of facts by… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
Right now it is a terrible thing to be a rugged individualist; but we don't know what else to be except a feeble nonentity. — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
“Why did the humanitarian philosophy of eighteenth century Europe usher in the Reign of Terror? It did not happen by chance; it followed from… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than is required to seize children from their parents, teach them whatever the authorities decree… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
