No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government. — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
“Poverty can be brought about by law; it cannot be forbidden by law.” — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
As such, the least practicable measure of government must be the best. Anything beyond the minimum must be oppression. — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
The philanthropist, the politician, and the pimp are inevitably found in alliance because they have the same motives, they seek the same… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
Now the sole remedy for the abuse of political power is to limit it; but when politics corrupt business, modern reformers invariably… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
“It is disgraceful to our educational institutions and to the political intelligence of Americans, that in discussion of the notorious "Moscow trials,"… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
“In arguing against free enterprise capitalism, the collectivist always adopts the false assumption of a fixed number of jobs in that system.… — 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,… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
“The political power had intervened, and such was its necessary effect. The Western farmers, who willingly took what appeared to be the… — 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
