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“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.”

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Rose Wilder Lane

Rose Wilder Lane was an American journalist and author, renowned for her journalism and her novel 'The Mysterious Stranger'. Born on December 5, 1886, she passed away on October 30, 1968. more

“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.”

“Writing fiction is an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.”

Writing Effort Fiction Quality Killing Endless Capture Defeated Quality Of Life Writing Fiction Killing It

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“No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men.”

Men Doe States Facts Government

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“The question is whether personal freedom is worth the terrible effort, the never-lifted burden and risks of self-reliance.”

Self Effort Risk Terrible Burden Self Reliance Reliance Personal Freedom

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“It was not seen that woman's place was in the home until she began to go out of it; the statement was a reply to an unspoken challenge, it was attempted resistance to irresistible change.”

Home Challenges Statements Resistance Irresistible Unspoken

Book:Old Home Town

Source: Old Home Town

“There is a city myth that country life was isolated and lonely; the truth is that farmers and their families then had a richer social life than they have now. They enjoyed a society organic, satisfying and whole, not mixed and thinned with the life of town, city and nation as it now is.”

Country Whole Nations Social Cities Truth Is Lonely Towns Myth Enjoyed Farmers Satisfying Isolated Social Life Country Life

Book:Old Home Town

Source: Old Home Town

“Plants and animals repeat routine, but men who are not restrained will go into the future like explorers into a new country.”

Men Country Animal Plant Repeats Routine Explorers Plants And Animals

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“The real protection of life and property, always and everywhere.”

Real Property Protection

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“The need for Government is the need for force; where force is unnecessary, there is no need for Government.”

Needs Government Force Unnecessary

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“I am now a fundamentalist American; give me time and I will tell you why individualism, laissez-faire and the slightly restrained anarchy of capitalism offer the best opportunities for the development of the human spirit.”

Giving Humans Spirit Opportunity Development Offers Capitalism Give Me Anarchy Individualism Human Spirit Fundamentalist Laissez Faire Best Opportunity Laissez Faire Capitalism

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