“The Old World belief is this: Individuals are cells in a greater organism. All men are naturally dependent, obedient, controlled by Authority. (Communists, Fascists and Nazis say this in a cliché, “The individual is nothing.”) Government is Authority, controlling the… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share
Life is a thin narrowness of taken-for-granted, a plank over a canyon in a fog. There is something under our feet, the taken-for-granted. A table is a table, food is food, we are we - because we don't question these… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
As an American I am of course fundamentally opposed to democracy and to anyone advocating or defending democracy, which in theory and practice is… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
“The only way to make me stand in line for half an hour to buy a spool of thread, or to make me spend… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
I somehow always have this idea that as soon as I can get through this work that's piled up ahead of me, I'll really… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
Anyone who says that economic security is a human right, has been to much babied. While he babbles, other men are risking and losing their lives to protect him. They are fighting the sea, fighting the land, fighting disease and insects and weather and space and time, for him, while he chatters that all men have a right to security… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share
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… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
Our quilts were more than useful, they had the faint sentimentality of a pressed flower. And no more beauty. We did not value them… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
Nothing whatever but the constitutional law, the political structure, of these United States protects any American from arbitrary seizure of his property and his… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
The need for Government is the need for force; where force is unnecessary, there is no need for Government. — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
Plants and animals repeat routine, but men who are not restrained will go into the future like explorers into a new country. — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
Houses are the abiding joys; they are the most emotion-stirring of all things. An automobile is regarded with fond affection, a typewriter becomes the inseparable companion, clothes can stir sentimentality, and the bit of bric-a-brac is a toy one would weep to see torn away - but houses are real, deep, emotional things. How much excitement in the cutting of… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share
“To know the everlasting majority attitude toward new uses of productive energy, remember that your great-grandfather did not believe that railroads were possible. At the time, a committee of learned men investigating the question for the British Government, reported that railroads were not possible, for the reason that the proposed speed of fifteen miles an hour would kill any human… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share
