There is a city myth that country life was isolated and lonely; the truth is that farmers and their families then had a richer social life than they …

- Rose Wilder Lane

I am now a fundamentalist American; give me time and I will tell you why individualism, laissez-faire and the slightly restrained anarchy of capitali…

- Rose Wilder Lane

One thing I hate about the New Deal is that it is killing what, to me, is the American pioneering spirit. I simply do not know what to tell my own bo…

- Rose Wilder Lane

No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men.

- Rose Wilder Lane

Men in Government monopolize the necessary use of force; they are not using their energies productively; they are not milking cows. To get butter, th…

- Rose Wilder Lane

The Democratic Party is now a political mechanism having a genuine political principle: national socialism.

- Rose Wilder Lane

The need for Government is the need for force; where force is unnecessary, there is no need for Government.

- Rose Wilder Lane

Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

- Rose Wilder Lane

Houses are the abiding joys; they are the most emotion-stirring of all things. An automobile is regarded with fond affection, a typewriter becomes th…

- Rose Wilder Lane