Isabel Paterson

"But in reason if one man has no right to command all other men--the expedient of despotism--neither has he any right to command even one other man; nor yet have ten men, or a million, the right to com…"

"An army is a diversion of energy from the productive life of a nation."

"But when the good people do know, as they certainly do, that three million persons were starved to death in one year by the methods they approve, why do they still fraternize with the murderers and su…"

"What the past shows, by overwhelming evidence, is that the imponderables outweigh every material article in the scales of human endeavor."

"There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than is required to seize children from their parents, teach them whatever the authorities decree they shall be taught, and expropriate from the pare…"

"Whether it does any good or not, a law enforced must hurt someone."

"A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state."

"Whoever is fortunate enough to be an American citizen came into the greatest inheritance man has ever enjoyed. He has had the benefit of every heroic and intellectual effort men have made for many tho…"