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I came out of the Soviet Union no longer a communist, because I believed in personal freedom.

Rose Wilder Lane

I came out of the Soviet Union no longer a communist, because I believed in personal freedom.

Tags: freedom, communist, personal, soviet

The Old World belief is this: Individuals are cells in a greater organism. All men are naturally dependent, obedient, controlled by Authority. (Communists, Fascists and Nazis say this in a cliché, The...

Rose Wilder Lane

The Old World belief is this: Individuals are cells in a greater organism. All men are naturally dependent, obedient, controlled by Authority. (Communists, Fascists and Nazis say this in a cliché, The...

About Author
Rose Wilder Lane (December 5, 1886 – October 30, 1968) was an American writer and daughter of American writer Laura Ingalls Wilder. Along with two other female writers, Ayn Rand and Isabel Paterson, Lane is one of the more influential advocates of the American libertarian movement.

In communism, the men who establish the commune plan its economy.

Rose Wilder Lane

In communism, the men who establish the commune plan its economy.

Between the 15th century and the 17th century, the Moslems forgot the God of Abraham, Christ, and Mohammed. They came to think of God as Authority, controlling men. I believe they could find no other...

Rose Wilder Lane

Between the 15th century and the 17th century, the Moslems forgot the God of Abraham, Christ, and Mohammed. They came to think of God as Authority, controlling men. I believe they could find no other...

Under the arcade of the market place, above the door that led to the offices of the city government, you see today a painting of Mother Ragusa, the Free City. The colors are still clear and fresh. Gro...

Rose Wilder Lane

Under the arcade of the market place, above the door that led to the offices of the city government, you see today a painting of Mother Ragusa, the Free City. The colors are still clear and fresh. Gro...

The Saracens had no use for these measurements, no reason to sail around the earth to India. They were in India. Cathay and the Spice Islands were on their doorstep. But Europeans needed a route to In...

Rose Wilder Lane

The Saracens had no use for these measurements, no reason to sail around the earth to India. They were in India. Cathay and the Spice Islands were on their doorstep. But Europeans needed a route to In...

The basis of all this thinking is ignorance of creative energy; it is ignorance of the real nature of human beings; it is the ancient, pagan superstition that Authority controls a static, limited univ...

Rose Wilder Lane

The basis of all this thinking is ignorance of creative energy; it is ignorance of the real nature of human beings; it is the ancient, pagan superstition that Authority controls a static, limited univ...

Yet twenty-two hundred years ago, there were scientists. Before Rome was an outlaw’s camp in the far west, Aristotle was saying, If a man grasps truths that can not be other than they are, in the way...

Rose Wilder Lane

Yet twenty-two hundred years ago, there were scientists. Before Rome was an outlaw’s camp in the far west, Aristotle was saying, If a man grasps truths that can not be other than they are, in the way...

The feudal system was the most perfect social system in history. It even had a safety valve, to release any pressure of energy in it. An exceptional, ambitious, and gifted boy might get his master’s p...

Rose Wilder Lane

The feudal system was the most perfect social system in history. It even had a safety valve, to release any pressure of energy in it. An exceptional, ambitious, and gifted boy might get his master’s p...

Being absolute, and maintained by police force, a Government monopoly need not please its customers.

Rose Wilder Lane

Being absolute, and maintained by police force, a Government monopoly need not please its customers.

Anyone who says that economic security is a human right, has been too much babied. While he babbles, other men are risking and losing their lives to protect him. They are fighting the sea, fighting th...

Rose Wilder Lane

Anyone who says that economic security is a human right, has been too much babied. While he babbles, other men are risking and losing their lives to protect him. They are fighting the sea, fighting th...

No one who sees the plain fact that all moral and spiritual values of human life are in the individual, can possibly see any spiritual value in war. War comes from the individual’s ignorance of his ow...

Rose Wilder Lane

No one who sees the plain fact that all moral and spiritual values of human life are in the individual, can possibly see any spiritual value in war. War comes from the individual’s ignorance of his ow...

I thought they were unemployed. They did not appear as unemployed on any record, but the actual unemployment in France and throughout Europe, was enormous. For every purchase in a French department st...

Rose Wilder Lane

I thought they were unemployed. They did not appear as unemployed on any record, but the actual unemployment in France and throughout Europe, was enormous. For every purchase in a French department st...

All Spanish intellectuals burst into one great song of joy and hope. Now Spain was clean. Now every Spaniard was wholly obedient to Church and King. Alone of all European countries, Spain was now one...

Rose Wilder Lane

All Spanish intellectuals burst into one great song of joy and hope. Now Spain was clean. Now every Spaniard was wholly obedient to Church and King. Alone of all European countries, Spain was now one...

So long as any large group of persons, anywhere on this earth, believe the ancient superstition that some Authority is responsible for their welfare, they will set up some image of that Authority and...

Rose Wilder Lane

So long as any large group of persons, anywhere on this earth, believe the ancient superstition that some Authority is responsible for their welfare, they will set up some image of that Authority and...

A planned economy destroys Government because when men use force in an attempt to control productive energies, they have no means of knowing real costs, and these costs automatically increase at an in...

Rose Wilder Lane

A planned economy destroys Government because when men use force in an attempt to control productive energies, they have no means of knowing real costs, and these costs automatically increase at an in...

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.

Tags: happiness

You must take into account the actual distinction between truth and fact. It is beyond all human power to tell all the facts. Your whole lifetime spent at nothing else would not tell all the facts of...

Rose Wilder Lane

You must take into account the actual distinction between truth and fact. It is beyond all human power to tell all the facts. Your whole lifetime spent at nothing else would not tell all the facts of...

Tags: breakfast, fact, infinite, infinity, lifetime, morning, truth, view

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.

Tags: anarchy, ancap, fascism, freedom, individualism, libertarian, liberty, mafia, philosophy, politics

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.

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.

Tags: life and living, life lessons