American citizen Quote by Isabel Paterson

“Newton was asked as a mathematician, not as a moralist. He replied 'Gentlemen, in applied mathematics, you must describe your unit.”

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Isabel Paterson

Every politically controlled educational system will inculcate the doctrine of state supremacy sooner or later. . . . Once that doctrine has been accepted,…

— Isabel Paterson

Nothing increases the number of jobs so rapidly as labor-saving machinery, because it releases wants theretofore unknown, by permitting leisure.

— 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.

— 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…

— 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.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Isabel Paterson