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> [People mostly do as they like, and that would be fine if they'd let other people do the same.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isabel-paterson/people-mostly-do-as-they-like-and-that-would-be-fine-if-they-d-let/)

[Isabel Paterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isabel-paterson/)

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## More by Isabel Paterson

> [“Newton was asked as a mathematician, not as a moralist. He replied 'Gentlemen, in applied mathematics, you must describe your unit.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isabel-paterson/newton-was-asked-as-a-mathematician-not-as-a-moralist-he-replied/)

[Isabel Paterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isabel-paterson/)

> [But when the good people do know, as they certainly do, that three million persons (at the least estimate) were starved to death in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isabel-paterson/but-when-the-good-people-do-know-as-they-certainly-do-that-three/)

[Isabel Paterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isabel-paterson/)

> [“But in a free enterprise economy, increased production increases the number of jobs. It might be said that one job creates another, which is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isabel-paterson/but-in-a-free-enterprise-economy-increased-production-increases-the/)

[Isabel Paterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isabel-paterson/)

> [“If Charles F. Kettering or Thomas Alva Edison or Henry Ford had been put to work digging ditches under duress, one could calculate approximately…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isabel-paterson/if-charles-f-kettering-or-thomas-alva-edison-or-henry-ford-had-been/)

[Isabel Paterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isabel-paterson/)

> [Every politically controlled educational system will inculcate the doctrine of state supremacy sooner or later. . . . Once that doctrine has been accepted,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isabel-paterson/every-politically-controlled-educational-system-will-inculcate-the/)

[Isabel Paterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isabel-paterson/)

> [Nothing increases the number of jobs so rapidly as labor-saving machinery, because it releases wants theretofore unknown, by permitting leisure.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isabel-paterson/nothing-increases-the-number-of-jobs-so-rapidly-as-labor-saving/)

[Isabel Paterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isabel-paterson/)

> [If Americans should now turn back, submit again to slavery, it would be a betrayal so base the human race might better perish.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isabel-paterson/if-americans-should-now-turn-back-submit-again-to-slavery-it-would-be/)

[Isabel Paterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isabel-paterson/)

> [“The intrinsic nature of the power authorized was so little realized that this was called "free education," the most absolute contradiction of facts by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isabel-paterson/the-intrinsic-nature-of-the-power-authorized-was-so-little-realized/)

[Isabel Paterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isabel-paterson/)

> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isabel-paterson/right-now-it-is-a-terrible-thing-to-be-a-rugged-individualist-but-we/)

[Isabel Paterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isabel-paterson/)

> [“Why did the humanitarian philosophy of eighteenth century Europe usher in the Reign of Terror? It did not happen by chance; it followed from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isabel-paterson/why-did-the-humanitarian-philosophy-of-eighteenth-century-europe/)

[Isabel Paterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isabel-paterson/)

> [There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than is required to seize children from their parents, teach them whatever the authorities decree…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isabel-paterson/there-can-be-no-greater-stretch-of-arbitrary-power-than-is-required/)

[Isabel Paterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isabel-paterson/)

> [Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isabel-paterson/most-of-the-harm-in-the-world-is-done-by-good-people-and-not-by/)

[Isabel Paterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isabel-paterson/)

> [Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isabel-paterson/most-of-the-harm-in-the-world-is-done-by-good-people-and-not-by-2/)

[Isabel Paterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isabel-paterson/)

> [The craving for power is in itself a sign of inferior abilities and unfitness for responsibility.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isabel-paterson/the-craving-for-power-is-in-itself-a-sign-of-inferior-abilities-and/)

[Isabel Paterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isabel-paterson/)

> [Freedom is dangerous. Possibly crawling on all fours might be safer than standing upright, but we like the view better up there.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isabel-paterson/freedom-is-dangerous-possibly-crawling-on-all-fours-might-be-safer/)

[Isabel Paterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isabel-paterson/)

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