Rose Wilder Lane Quotes

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• 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.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Fighting, Men, Space

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• 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.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Hate, Independent, School

  Journal entry for April 15, 1937. "The Ghost in the Little House" by William V. Holtz. Chapter 14, 1993.

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• Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

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  Happiness, Happy, Gratitude

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• What I can't understand is, how can anybody figure now that the government can support us, when we support the government.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Government, Support, Figures

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• As an American I am of course fundamentally opposed to democracy and to anyone advocating or defending democracy, which in theory and practice is the basis of socialism.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Practice, Democracy, Socialism

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• 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.

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  Gun, Men, Necessary Use

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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.

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  Men, Doe, Facts

  "Give Me Liberty". Book by Rose Wilder Lane, 1936.

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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.

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  Opportunity, Giving, Laissez Faire Capitalism

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• The Democratic Party is now a political mechanism having a genuine political principle: national socialism.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Party, Political, Principles

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

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  Government, Needs, Unnecessary

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• Curiosity is the hunger of the human mind.

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  Curiosity, Mind, Hunger

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• 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.

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  Country, Lonely, Cities

  Rose Wilder Lane (1985). “Old Home Town”, p.1, U of Nebraska Press

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• 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.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Government, Law, Political

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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.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Way, Poor, Damn

  Letters to Guy Moyston, August 25, 1924 and July 11, 1925.

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• As novices, we think we're entirely responsible for the way people treat us. I have long since learned that we are responsible only for the way we treat people.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Learning, Thinking, Long

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• We are never aware of the present; each instant of living becomes perceptible only when it is past, so that in a sense we do not live at all, but only remember living.

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  Past, Remember, Instant

  Rose Wilder Lane (1985). “Old Home Town”, p.13, U of Nebraska Press

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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.

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  Home, Challenges, Resistance

  Rose Wilder Lane (1985). “Old Home Town”, p.13, U of Nebraska Press

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• Life is a thin narrowness of taken-for-granted, a plank over a canyon in a fog.

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  Taken, Fog, Life Is

  "The Ghost in the Little House" by William V. Holtz, (ch. 7), 1993.

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• 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.

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  Hard Work, Responsibility, Self

  Rose Wilder Lane (1985). “Old Home Town”, p.24, U of Nebraska Press

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• I ask myself, 'why am I so lazy?' and am too lazy to reply.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Lazy, Laziness, Asks

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• The longest lives are short; our work lasts longer.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Lasts

  Rose Wilder Lane (1963). “Woman's Day Book of American Needlework”, Simon & Schuster

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

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  Self, Effort, Risk

  Said in 1936. Prologue to "The Ghost in the Little House" by William V. Holtz, 1993.

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• Houses are the abiding joys; they are the most emotion-stirring of all things. An automobile is regarded with fond affection, a typewriter becomes the inseparable companion, clothes can stir sentimentality, and the bit of bric-a-brac is a toy one would weep to see torn away - but houses are real, deep, emotional things. How much excitement in the cutting of a window, what enormous importance in the angle of a roof!

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  Real, Cutting, Emotional

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• Constant repetition dulls receptivity.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Repetition, Constant, Receptivity

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• Our quilts were more than useful, they had the faint sentimentality of a pressed flower. And no more beauty. We did not value them for their appearance, but for the memories in them, for their good wearing qualities and the thrift they represented.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Quilts, Memories, Flower

  Rose Wilder Lane (1985). “Old Home Town”, p.19, U of Nebraska Press

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