“That way of life against which my generation rebelled had given us grim courage, fortitude, self-discipline, a sense of individual responsibility, and a capacity for relentless hard work.” WaySelfHardIndividualGivenResponsibilityGenerationsHard WorkDisciplineCapacitySelf DisciplineFortitudeRelentlessMy GenerationGrimIndividual Responsibility Book:Old Home Town Source: Old Home Town
“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
“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
“no one in a group of three is the same person he (she, it) is in a group of two. No more than he is the same in a group of two as he is alone.” PersonsTwoSelfThreeGroupsGroups Of Three Author:Rose Wilder Lane
“The question is whether personal freedom is worth the terrible effort, the never-lifted burden and risks of self-reliance.” SelfEffortRiskTerribleBurdenSelf RelianceReliancePersonal Freedom Author:Rose Wilder Lane
