“Nobody can plan the actions of even a thousand living persons, separately. Anyone attempting to control millions must divide them into classes, and make a plan applying to these classes. But these classes do not exist. No two persons are alike. No two are in the same circumstances; no two have the same abilities; beyond getting the barest necessities of life, no two have the same desires. Therefore the men who try to enforce, in real life, a planned economy that is their theory, come up against the infinite diversity of human beings. The most slavish multitude of men that was ever called "demos" or "labor" or "capital" or "agriculture" or "the masses," actually are men; they are not sheep. Naturally, by their human nature, they escape in all directions from regulations applying to non-existent classes. It is necessary to increase the number of men who supervise their actions. Then (for officials are human, too) it is necessary that more men supervise the supervisors. Still, individuals will continue to act individually, in ways that they plan. These ways do not fit into Authority's plan. So still more men are needed, imperatively needed, to stop or to supervise these new ways of acting; and more men to supervise these supervisors; and more men to co-ordinate the constantly increasing complexity of all this supervision. An attempt to exercise a control of individuals that in reality does not exist, must increase in volume.” GovernmentFreedomGroupsCircumstancesControlBureaucracyImpossibilitySupervisionIndividuals Author:Rose Wilder Lane
“It is precisely democracy which is destroying the American political structure, American law, and the American economy.” GovernmentPoliticsFreedomLibertyCapitalismLibertarianSocialismCommunismAnarchyTaxationCoercionCollectivismStateStatismVoluntaryismLaissez FaireNon Aggression PrincipleAncapAnarcho CapitalismTotalitarianFree MarketsVoluntaryist Author: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 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.” KnowsMenWorldSelfCharacterSeemsGovernmentSchoolSpiritValuesHateMy OwnViewsDealsBoysPracticeOne ThingSecurityIdealsI HateIndependentKillingLeavingPoint Of ViewPracticalsInsaneCourageousNew WorldDependenceConfrontingNew DealPioneeringSelf ReliantThings I HateCourageous ManLeaving SchoolPioneering Spirit Author: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, they must use guns; they have nothing else to use.” MenUseGovernmentEnergyForceGunLibertarianCowsUse Of ForceNecessary UseMilking Cows Author:Rose Wilder Lane
“What I can't understand is, how can anybody figure now that the government can support us, when we support the government.” I CanGovernmentSupportFigures Author:Rose Wilder Lane
“Nothing whatever but the constitutional law, the political structure, of these United States protects any American from arbitrary seizure of his property and his person, from the Gestapo and the Storm Troops, from the concentration camp, the torture chamber, the revolver at the back of his neck in a cellar.” PersonsStatesGovernmentLawPoliticalUnitedLibertyUnited StatesProtectStructurePropertyStormTortureNecksConcentrationCampsTroopsArbitraryChamberCellarsConcentration CampSeizuresRevolverConstitutional LawGestapo Author:Rose Wilder Lane
“Anyone who says that economic security is a human right, has been to much babied. While he babbles, other men are risking and losing their lives to protect him. They are fighting the sea, fighting the land, fighting disease and insects and weather and space and time, for him, while he chatters that all men have a right to security and that some pagan god—Society, The State, The Government, The Commune—must give it to them. Let the fighting men stop fighting this inhuman earth for one hour, and he will learn how much security there is.” MenGivingHumansHas BeensStatesGovernmentEarthFightingHoursSpaceSeaEconomicLandSecurityProtectDiseaseLosingWeatherInsectsTime And SpacePaganInhumanOne HourChatterCommunesEconomic SecurityPagan Gods Author: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.” MenDoeStatesFactsGovernment Author:Rose Wilder Lane
“The need for Government is the need for force; where force is unnecessary, there is no need for Government.” NeedsGovernmentForceUnnecessary Author:Rose Wilder Lane
