--- title: "Best Rose Wilder Lane Quotes" description: "Rose Wilder Lane was an American writer and daughter of American writer Laura Ingalls Wilder. Browse 60 Rose Wilder Lane quotes." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b021/author-rose-wilder-lane-81318.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Rose Wilder Lane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b021/author-rose-wilder-lane-81318.jpg) # Rose Wilder Lane (1886–1968) Journalist United States **60** quotes in **431** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Rose Wilder Lane was a journalist from the United States, best known for *Let the Hurricane Roar*. ## Quick Facts About Rose Wilder Lane Born December 5, 1886 Died October 30, 1968 Nationality United States Profession Journalist Notable works Let the Hurricane Roar ## About Rose Wilder Lane Rose Wilder Lane was an American writer and daughter of American writer Laura Ingalls Wilder. Along with two other female writers, Ayn Rand and Isabel Paterson, Lane was one of the more influential advocates of the American libertarian movement. ## Awards & Honors National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame ## Quotes by Rose Wilder Lane · Page 2 > [“The fact is that nothing but human energy working productively can produce any of the necessities of human life, any human living…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-wilder-lane/the-fact-is-that-nothing-but-human-energy-working-productively-can/) [Rose Wilder Lane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rose-wilder-lane/) [Energy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/energy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c1b/rose-wilder-lane-11326_human-life_the-fact-is-that-nothing-but-human-energ_1746773.jpg) > [No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-wilder-lane/no-state-no-government-exists-what-does-in-fact-exist-is-a-man-or-a/) [Rose Wilder Lane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rose-wilder-lane/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/23a/rose-wilder-lane-11326_doe_no-state-no-government-exists-what-does_2205575.jpg) > [The need for Government is the need for force; where force is unnecessary, there is no need for Government.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-wilder-lane/the-need-for-government-is-the-need-for-force-where-force-is/) [Rose Wilder Lane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rose-wilder-lane/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ebf/rose-wilder-lane-11326_force_the-need-for-government-is-the-need-for_421199.jpg) > [no one in a group of three is the same person he (she, it) is in a group of two. No more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-wilder-lane/no-one-in-a-group-of-three-is-the-same-person-he-she-it-is-in-a-group/) [Rose Wilder Lane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rose-wilder-lane/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c83/rose-wilder-lane-11326_group_no-one-in-a-group-of-three-is-the-same-p_2383116.jpg) > [The first twenty years of my life were wasted. I didn't fit my environment, and I didn't know any other.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-wilder-lane/the-first-twenty-years-of-my-life-were-wasted-i-didn-t-fit-my/) [Rose Wilder Lane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rose-wilder-lane/) [Environment](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/environment/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/984/rose-wilder-lane-11326_environment_the-first-twenty-years-of-my-life-were-w_1567120.jpg) > [I am now a fundamentalist American; give me time and I will tell you why individualism, laissez-faire and the slightly restrained anarchy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-wilder-lane/i-am-now-a-fundamentalist-american-give-me-time-and-i-will-tell-you/) [Rose Wilder Lane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rose-wilder-lane/) [Anarchy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/anarchy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/624/rose-wilder-lane-11326_anarchy_i-am-now-a-fundamentalist-american-give_2083895.jpg) > [There is a city myth that country life was isolated and lonely; the truth is that farmers and their families then had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-wilder-lane/there-is-a-city-myth-that-country-life-was-isolated-and-lonely-the/) [Rose Wilder Lane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rose-wilder-lane/) [Cities](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cities/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ddb/rose-wilder-lane-11326_cities_there-is-a-city-myth-that-country-life-w_2986008.jpg) > [That way of life against which my generation rebelled had given us grim courage, fortitude, self-discipline, a sense of individual responsibility, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-wilder-lane/that-way-of-life-against-which-my-generation-rebelled-had-given-us/) [Rose Wilder Lane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rose-wilder-lane/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b9a/rose-wilder-lane-11326_capacity_that-way-of-life-against-which-my-genera_3001709.jpg) > [As novices, we think we're entirely responsible for the way people treat us. I have long since learned that we are responsible…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-wilder-lane/as-novices-we-think-we-re-entirely-responsible-for-the-way-people/) [Rose Wilder Lane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rose-wilder-lane/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/585/rose-wilder-lane-11326_long_as-novices-we-think-we-re-entirely-respo_3129713.jpg) > [I can imagine nothing more wonderful than always wanting to keep a man. It's this NOT wanting to keep them, and yet…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-wilder-lane/i-can-imagine-nothing-more-wonderful-than-always-wanting-to-keep-a/) [Rose Wilder Lane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rose-wilder-lane/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ec1/rose-wilder-lane-11326_able_i-can-imagine-nothing-more-wonderful-tha_1388417.jpg) > [It was not seen that woman's place was in the home until she began to go out of it; the statement was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-wilder-lane/it-was-not-seen-that-woman-s-place-was-in-the-home-until-she-began-to/) [Rose Wilder Lane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rose-wilder-lane/) [Challenges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/challenges/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c83/rose-wilder-lane-11326_challenges_it-was-not-seen-that-woman-s-place-was-i_346545.jpg) > [I so much like real things - the realities that come naturally from the depths of us like - what shall I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-wilder-lane/i-so-much-like-real-things-the-realities-that-come-naturally-from-the/) [Rose Wilder Lane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rose-wilder-lane/) [Depth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/depth/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7ec/rose-wilder-lane-11326_depth_i-so-much-like-real-things-the-realities_3191362.jpg) > [We are never aware of the present; each instant of living becomes perceptible only when it is past, so that in a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-wilder-lane/we-are-never-aware-of-the-present-each-instant-of-living-becomes/) [Rose Wilder Lane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rose-wilder-lane/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cd3/rose-wilder-lane-11326_instant_we-are-never-aware-of-the-present-each-i_2624671.jpg) > [Even the street, the sunshine, the very air had a special Sunday quality. We walked differently on Sundays, with greater propriety and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-wilder-lane/even-the-street-the-sunshine-the-very-air-had-a-special-sunday/) [Rose Wilder Lane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rose-wilder-lane/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/893/rose-wilder-lane-11326_air_even-the-street-the-sunshine-the-very-ai_871868.jpg) > [“The feudal system was the most perfect social system in history. It even had a safety valve, to release any pressure of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-wilder-lane/the-feudal-system-was-the-most-perfect-social-system-in-history-it/) [Rose Wilder Lane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rose-wilder-lane/) [Feudal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/feudal/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d51/rose-wilder-lane-11326_history_the-feudal-system-was-the-most-perfect-s_709167.jpg) > [Life is a thin narrowness of taken-for-granted, a plank over a canyon in a fog. There is something under our feet, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-wilder-lane/life-is-a-thin-narrowness-of-taken-for-granted-a-plank-over-a-canyon-2/) [Rose Wilder Lane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rose-wilder-lane/) [Alive](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/alive/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f77/rose-wilder-lane-11326_alive_life-is-a-thin-narrowness-of-taken-for-g_2223331.jpg) > [Houses are the abiding joys; they are the most emotion-stirring of all things. An automobile is regarded with fond affection, a typewriter…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-wilder-lane/houses-are-the-abiding-joys-they-are-the-most-emotion-stirring-of-all/) [Rose Wilder Lane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rose-wilder-lane/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/70a/rose-wilder-lane-11326_abiding_houses-are-the-abiding-joys-they-are-the_575774.jpg) > [Two deep human desires were at war ... the longing for stability, for form, for permanence, which in its essence is the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-wilder-lane/two-deep-human-desires-were-at-war-the-longing-for-stability-for-form/) [Rose Wilder Lane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rose-wilder-lane/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/38f/rose-wilder-lane-11326_built_two-deep-human-desires-were-at-war-the-l_1830627.jpg) > [“I thought they were unemployed. They did not appear as unemployed on any record, but the actual unemployment in France and throughout…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-wilder-lane/i-thought-they-were-unemployed-they-did-not-appear-as-unemployed-on/) [Rose Wilder Lane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rose-wilder-lane/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ee4/rose-wilder-lane-11326_quote_i-thought-they-were-unemployed-they-did_2091138.jpg) > [“The Old World belief is this: Individuals are cells in a greater organism. All men are naturally dependent, obedient, controlled by Authority.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-wilder-lane/the-old-world-belief-is-this-individuals-are-cells-in-a-greater/) [Rose Wilder Lane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rose-wilder-lane/) [Authority](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/authority/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9f4/rose-wilder-lane-11326_faith_the-old-world-belief-is-this-individuals_689535.jpg) ## Rose Wilder Lane by topic [Life (14)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life/rose-wilder-lane/) [Politics (11)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/politics/rose-wilder-lane/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rose-wilder-lane/#itemlist", "name": "Rose Wilder Lane Quotes", "numberOfItems": 20, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The fact is that nothing but human energy working productively can produce any of the necessities of human life, any human living conditions.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Rose Wilder Lane" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-wilder-lane/the-fact-is-that-nothing-but-human-energy-working-productively-can/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c1b/rose-wilder-lane-11326_human-life_the-fact-is-that-nothing-but-human-energ_1746773.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c1b/rose-wilder-lane-11326_human-life_the-fact-is-that-nothing-but-human-energ_1746773.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c1b/rose-wilder-lane-11326_human-life_the-fact-is-that-nothing-but-human-energ_1746773.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The fact is that nothing but human energy working productively can produce any of the necessities of human…” — Rose Wilder Lane", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "No state, no government exists. 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