Isabel Paterson Quotes
As freak legislation, the antitrust laws stand alone. Nobody knows what it is they forbid.
A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.
The only way to prevent prostitution altogether would be to imprison one half of the human race.
People mostly do as they like, and that would be fine if they'd let other people do the same.
Freedom is dangerous. Possibly crawling on all fours might be safer than standing upright, but we like the view better up there.
The biggest pests are the people who use altruism as an alibi. What they passionately wish is to make themselves important.
Do you think nobody would willingly entrust his children to you or pay you for teaching them? Why do you have to extort your fees and collect your pupils by compulsion?
No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government.
The philanthropist, the politician, and the pimp are inevitably found in alliance because they have the same motives, they seek the same ends, to exist for, through, and by others.
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.
Nothing increases the number of jobs so rapidly as labor-saving machinery, because it releases wants theretofore unknown, by permitting leisure.
If there were just one gift you could choose, but nothing barred, what would it be? We wish you then your own wish; you name it. Ours is liberty, now and forever.
The craving for power is in itself a sign of inferior abilities and unfitness for responsibility.
Trade and money, which go together in a stream of energy, inevitably wash away the enclosing walls of a society of status.
Not uncommonly one hears some romantic young woman say, 'Oh, I would give anything to be a writer.' But she would not; and 'anything' is not enough. One must give everything.
If Americans should now turn back, submit again to slavery, it would be a betrayal so base the human race might better perish.
Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse or omission.
If you go back 150 years you are a reactionary; but if you go back 1000 years, you are in the foremost ranks of progress.
Right now it is a terrible thing to be a rugged individualist; but we don't know what else to be except a feeble nonentity.
As such, the least practicable measure of government must be the best. Anything beyond the minimum must be oppression.
Newton was asked as a mathematician, not as a moralist. He replied 'Gentlemen, in applied mathematics, you must describe your unit.
