Now the sole remedy for the abuse of political power is to limit it; but when politics corrupt business, modern reformers invariably demand the enlargement of the political power.
It takes the best part of a lifetime to find out what you don't want. - Isabel Paterson
It takes the best part of a lifetime to find out what you don't want.
- Isabel Paterson
The humanitarian in theory is the terrorist in action. - Isabel Paterson
The humanitarian in theory is the terrorist in action.
Every politically controlled educational system will inculcate the doctrine of state supremacy sooner or later. . . . Once that doctrine has been acc… - Isabel Paterson
Every politically controlled educational system will inculcate the doctrine of state supremacy sooner or later. . . . Once that doctrine has been acc…
The power to do things for people is also the power to do things to people. - Isabel Paterson
The power to do things for people is also the power to do things to people.
Freedom is dangerous. Possibly crawling on all fours might be safer than standing upright, but we like the view better up there. - Isabel Paterson
Freedom is dangerous. Possibly crawling on all fours might be safer than standing upright, but we like the view better up there.
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
There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than is required to seize children from their parents, teach them whatever the authorities decree …
The humanitarian wishes to be a prime mover in the lives of others. He cannot admit either the divine or the natural order, by which men have the pow… - Isabel Paterson
The humanitarian wishes to be a prime mover in the lives of others. He cannot admit either the divine or the natural order, by which men have the pow…
No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government. - Isabel Paterson
No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government.
A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state. - Isabel Paterson
A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.
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