"No law can give power to private persons;……" — Isabel Paterson
"No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government."
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Isabel Paterson
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30 Quotes by Isabel Paterson
Isabel Paterson has 30 quotes on this site.
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Do you think nobody would willingly entrust his children to you or pay you for teaching them? Why do you…
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Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It…
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A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.
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Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It…
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Right now it is a terrible thing to be a rugged individualist; but we don't know what else to be…
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There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than is required to seize children from their parents, teach them…
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Trade and money, which go together in a stream of energy, inevitably wash away the enclosing walls of a society…
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The military state is the final form to which every planned economy tends rapidly.
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The philanthropist, the politician, and the pimp are inevitably found in alliance because they have the same motives, they seek…
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The humanitarian in theory is the terrorist in action.
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The humanitarian wishes to be a prime mover in the lives of others. He cannot admit either the divine or…
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The biggest pests are the people who use altruism as an alibi. What they passionately wish is to make themselves…
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More Every Law Quotes
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Every law is an infraction of liberty.
— Jeremy Bentham
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In dealing with the State, we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal, though they existed before we…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian, he can live in peace.....Treat all men alike.…
— Chief Joseph
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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration; the most extraordinary, the most bizarre…
— Marquis de Sade
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Adopting a central organizing principle means embarking on an all-out effort to use every policy and program, every law and…
— Al Gore
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God knows instantly and effortlessly all matter and all matters, all mind and every mind, all spirit and all spirits,…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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The Republicans suddenly are very concerned about people losing their health coverage! I would believe that they were worried about…
— Andy Borowitz
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The law is a gun, which if it misses a pigeon always kills a crow; if it does not strike…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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So many able writers have shown that the unjust institutions which work so much misery and suffering to the masses…
— Lucy Parsons
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In my lifetime I have broken every law that was ever made by both man and God", he said, "If…
— Carl Panzram
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Every law that was ever written opened up a new way to graft.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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When we are mindful of every nuance of our natural world, we finally get the picture: that we are only…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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