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 boys, leaving school and confronting this new world whose ideal is Security and whose practice is dependence upon government instead of upon one's self. All the old character-values seem simply insane from a practical point of view; the self-reliant, the independent, the courageous man is penalized from every direction.
The need for Government is the need for force; where force is unnecessary, there is no need for Government. - 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
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
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 …
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
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…
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
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…
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
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…
The Democratic Party is now a political mechanism having a genuine political principle: national socialism. - Rose Wilder Lane
The Democratic Party is now a political mechanism having a genuine political principle: national socialism.
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
No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men.
Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open. - Rose Wilder Lane
Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.
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
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…
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