"Making the best of things is a damn……" — Rose Wilder Lane
"Making the best of things is a damn poor way of dealing with them. My life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand."
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20 Quotes by Rose Wilder Lane
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Nothing whatever but the constitutional law, the political structure, of these United States protects any American from arbitrary seizure of…
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As novices, we think we're entirely responsible for the way people treat us. I have long since learned that we…
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An Old World revolution is only a movement around a motionless center; it never breaks out of the circle. Firm…
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Anyone who says that economic security is a human right, has been to much babied. While he babbles, other men…
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Writing fiction is ... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.
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No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over…
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The question is whether personal freedom is worth the terrible effort, the never-lifted burden and risks of self-reliance.
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It was not seen that woman's place was in the home until she began to go out of it; the…
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There is a city myth that country life was isolated and lonely; the truth is that farmers and their families…
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Plants and animals repeat routine, but men who are not restrained will go into the future like explorers into a…
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The real protection of life and property, always and everywhere.
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The need for Government is the need for force; where force is unnecessary, there is no need for Government.
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