“ 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
“ I came out of the Soviet Union no longer a communist, because I believed in personal freedom. Rose Wilder Lane
“ It is precisely democracy which is destroying the American political structure, American law, and the American economy. 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… Rose Wilder Lane
“ Being absolute, and maintained by police force, a Government monopoly need not please its customers. 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… 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. 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… Rose Wilder Lane
“ Indeed, nothing but smuggling kept the poor from starving to death under that Government monopoly, benevolently planned for their good. 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… Rose Wilder Lane
“ Living is fighting for life, and when anyone does not know this fact, someone else is doing his fighting for him. Rose Wilder Lane
“ Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open. Rose Wilder Lane
“ To know the everlasting majority attitude toward new uses of productive energy, remember that your great-grandfather did not believe that railroads were possible. At the time, a committee of learned m… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… Rose Wilder Lane
