“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
“Two deep human desires were at war ... the longing for stability, for form, for permanence, which in its essence is the desire for death, and the opposing hunger for movement, change, instability and risk, which are life. Men came from the east and built these American towns because they wished to go no farther, and the towns they built were shaped by the urge to go onward.” MenHumansTwoWarFormDesireRiskMovementBuiltEssenceTownsLongingHungerEastUrgesStabilityOpposingPermanenceInstability Book:Old Home Town Source: Old Home Town
“I can imagine nothing more wonderful than always wanting to keep a man. It's this NOT wanting to keep them, and yet not quite being able to disentangle one's self, never quite having the ruthlessness to stike at the hands on the gunwale with an oar until they let go - that's the horrible thing.” MenI CanSelfHandsAbleImagineWonderfulLetting GoHorribleNever QuitHorrible ThingsOarRuthlessness 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
“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
“Plants and animals repeat routine, but men who are not restrained will go into the future like explorers into a new country.” MenCountryAnimalPlantRepeatsRoutineExplorersPlants And Animals Author:Rose Wilder Lane
